Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart by buying the place where he has weekended for two years - a 300-acre farm near Pawling in Dutchess County, New York. GOP-Hopeful Dewey thus became, like his 35-mile-away neighbor, Franklin Roosevelt, a titular constituent of GOP-Hopeful Hamilton Fish. Dewey farm facts: price, $30,300 ($3,000 down); a 175-year-old farmhouse, with front porch suitable for campaign purposes; two tenant houses, 70 head of cattle...
...successor to Tiny Tower, St. Nicholas went into Woolworth stores last week. Its price was cut from 25? to 10?. It sported a bright two-color format like Tiny Tower's. Oldtime readers of St. Nicholas would never have recognized its pages, filled with crude, bold drawings of camels and hippopotamuses and monkeys, pictures to be cut out and mounted, nursery fables in the style of Thornton Burgess...
This question was justified by the condition of many a manufacturer's order books: to provide against price rises and shortage, his customers had swamped him with orders; now they have ordered and the foreign war purchasers have not yet come along; he has a huge backlog but few new orders coming in. Shall he operate at 100% till January-and trust to the gods for 1940 orders-or shall he operate at 75% and be sure of keeping busy till March...
...National Association of Wool Manufacturers took a look at his industry. He saw that its 560 firms had a net loss of more than $10,000,000 in the preceding six months and he grew sarcastic. Soon the trade received from President Besse a three-page printed blast against price cutting and reckless competition...
Whatever may happen "when the war is over," the wool industry last week was neither in need of tariff favors nor in danger of price cutting. It was in the midst of making a cleanup out of the war. For wool is a real war commodity-needed for soldiers' uniforms, overcoats, blankets. The U. S. has no wool surplus and the British Empire has forbidden wool exports outside of the Empire. Besides raw wool, millions of yards of woolens normally imported from Britain (1938 imports: 4,800,000 sq. yds.) will have to be made...