Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...richest of reigning Kings, Farouk I was able to give his bride a three-strand diamond necklace gaped at by thousands at the Paris Exposition last summer under a $120,000 price tag. Other notable wedding presents...
...cost of living has been rising in Mexico so fast that recently the Department of Economy stopped publishing price indices. Mexicans with money have continued, however, to buy the U. S. razor blades, radios and motor cars...
...Bronx will not be able to do so. So last week at Albany he introduced a bill which, if passed, would enable New York cities to establish municipal funeral parlors such as several big European cities maintain for their indigent citizens. Decent funerals would be provided at cost price: $60. The parlor which New York City would require to embalm & bury or cremate & pack its poorer citizenry would cost...
...might possibly be involved if the cases had to be handled through municipal mortuaries." To "cases" recommended by clergy or social service executives, these morticians would for $85 provide the use of their parlors, personnel and equipment, a standard casket, and a grave. Graves at such a bargain price are possible, said Mr. Flynn, because many families have old ones waiting from more prosperous years, often the church donates one, and many estates have remnants of hallowed ground which heirs cannot use and therefore donate to charitable enterprises such as Mr. Flynn's proposed "clinics...
Through a special system of selection, inexpensive and costly books were judged equally, and out of the fifty books more than half cost 42.50 or less. The books range in price from about sixty cents to about five hundred dollars...