Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...higher subsidy for U. S.-mined silver was the bill's third provision. The Treasury's old price was 64.64? per oz. Silver Senators demanded as high as $1.29. The Administration ascertained that 70.95? was a rock-bottom price for which enough silverites would desert their hard-money allies. It was crude barter by both sides, but it worked. The bill finally passed 43-39 with Senators Borah, Pittman and O'Mahoney leading seven silverite sellouts, setting the price of silver...
Potash politics come easy to Europe's masters of power politics. Europe's Cartel is about two-thirds Potash Syndicate of Germany, some French, less Polish. Its bankers are British. Spain, an independent producer, thoroughly undercut the trust's prices in 1933 and 1934. But in the spring of 1935 the Syndicate, thanks to German control of Spain's oldest potash company, made a tentative deal with Spain. Immediately the world price snapped back from its trade...
...potash industry from depriving them of the U. S. market. U. S. consumption in 1938 was 467,000 tons (15% of world production) which provided $23,260,400 worth of business, with the Cartel cut down to $13,512,110. Down came the Syndicate's U. S. price (50? to $1.75 a ton) on three important grades...
This company's difficulty was that as it increased potash production it had to sell more borax. To accomplish this, borax prices were halved between 1926 and 1930 -when all other prices were skyrocketing. The price cut worked and borax exports rose from 14,000 tons in 1926 to 80,000 tons in 1929. Today, American Potash and Chemical and its two competitors can readily increase their capacity to supply all U. S. potash needs...
...cheap books and the success of cheap books in Europe. We feel we ought to give it a chance-to show that it won't work here. If we thought it would really go, we would hesitate much longer about letting him have our plates." Said another: "The price is still too high for paperbound books-they have to sell at 10? or 15?, compete with magazines." A third publisher said the initial success in New York was no guide, was due to novelty appeal and Pocket Books' $2,000 full-page ad in the New York Times...