Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the schools must sacrifice a certain amount of the ground now covered and devote more time to the teaching of note-taking, the handling of lecture material and long-range reading assignments. The students are not going to lie down on the job when they realize what the price may be: failure to get into college...
This evidence of low prices for farm products points to the most significant element in the commodity-price weakness- the inequilibrium which worries Mr. Roosevelt when he suggests that some prices should fall, others rise. For, whereas prices of farm products and raw materials (output of which cannot be easily controlled) break on slight excuse, prices of manufactured products (output of which is more or less controllable) are firmly established...
...clinch the deal, which will cost his company almost $12,000,000 in stock, President Dow dangled an attractive proposition before Great Western's stockholders. For each preferred share they hold, they will get three-sixteenths of a share of Dow common; for each common share (whose price zoomed from $60 to $132 on news of the merger), one share of Dow common (about $134). The merger will make Great Western a Dow division with Jacob Hagens its manager...
...entire world privileged to present MEN'S HEAVY-WEIGHT*OVERCOATS of the world's most precious fabric, 100% PURE STROOCK VICUÑA CLOTH." Broadway crowds stopped to gape at the model coat which 60 vicuñas died to make. One man actually ordered a coat. Price...
...That Journey (Caxton, $2.50), the first novel of a 36-year-old Ohioan named Emerson Price, is a sample of such realism-a transcript of back-alley life, swimming-hole conversation, and those other phases of their private lives which sons conceal from their parents...