Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Unity." Koc, realizing that "national unity" was an empty formula without support of two large groups-the National Democrats (made up of conservative nationalists) and the peasants- suggested to his political boss that concessions be made to induce one or both groups to join the united front. Price for peasant support was the return of Witos...
...which usually damages the disabled motor just as pushing an automobile forward with gears meshed but engine dead may strip the gears. Tried out on several military types by both army and navy, the new propeller last week won a fat contract from the Army-240 for an average price of $2,134.42 apiece...
...July 19, Congressman W. D. McFarlane, in a speech replete with facts . . . said that upon receiving your experimental license . . . you immediately raised the price of your radio advertising time some 50% and continued to collect handsome commercial profits on the basis of experimentation for these 39 months, a practice which you know is definitely prohibited by the rules of the Commission...
...monopoly, a U. S. client gave the Crow agency a go-ahead on the biggest advertising campaign ever put on in China. Chinese smokers took a few sample puffs, grimaced, went back to the British brand. When another manufacturer duplicated a favorite British blend exactly, designed a beautiful packet, priced it lower, the sales were still nil. Chinese customers, guided by the Confucian maxim that "fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue," merely figured the more elegant the packet, the cheaper the price, the shoddier the quality. Drugs, another leading gold mine for western civilization...
...French, onetime Boston insurance agent, who last year embarrassed his son-in-law John Jacob Astor 3rd by writing about his life in society, filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy. Among the creditors listed were Empire Trust Co. ($2,875), Dr. Callahan, of Bull Street, Newport ($10), Newport One-Price Clothing Co. ($6.35), Good Will Cleansers ($6.20), Wing Lee, laundryman ($1.48), Western Union Telegraph Co. (38?). In 1923, when broke, Socialite French took an unsuccessful flyer at driving a taxicab...