Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best aide on whom rests much of the responsibility for the success of this campaign of attrition is China's No. 1 Guerrilla Fighter, modest, crinkly-eyed Chu Teh, Commander of the 8th Route (former Communist) Army. Once hunted by the Generalissimo, with a price of $100,000 on his bullet-shaped head, while Chiang Kai-shek carried on his ten years of futile war against the Communists, Chu Teh now has under him a force of about 150,000 fervent Communist soldiers, another 300,000 embattled farmers, operating behind the Japanese front lines in Shansi and Shantung provinces...
...major-league scouts tripping over one another in the Rainiers' ball park. When he finished the season with 25 games won, seven lost, 145 strikeouts, an earned-run average of 2.48 and a batting average of .313, Owner Emil Sick of the Seattle club put a $100,000 price tag on this rookie pitcher, fresh from high school. Although no club owner was willing to pay that amount in cash, the Tigers -outbidding the rich Yankees, Red Sox, Pirates and Cubs last week-gave almost the equivalent of $100,000 for the baseball find of the year...
...continuing prosperity. . . . Speaking generally, it is a fact today that America's production plant is obsolete, as measured by today's technology. The true way to enlarge present pay envelopes and provide more pay envelopes for more workers is to do those things that mean lower prices." Such price reduction, said Mr. Sloan, "can only be accomplished by increased productivity"-i.e., modernizing U. S. production...
...mystery was in the crude drug department, which Dr. Coster ran with the help of Assistant Treasurer George E. Dietrich. Each year the department reported a nice inventory profit from its operations abroad and this profit was added to the inventories and accounts receivable on the books. Accountants Price, Waterhouse & Co. certified that the inventories had been "certified ... by responsible officials" without certifying the inventories themselves...
...knew sportsmen like a book. His first publication was a book of sketches, priced at $7.50, which he peddled himself. Booksellers took one look-an unknown publisher, an unknown author, an unheard-of price!-and wrote him off as crazy. Publisher Connett, a serene glitter in his eye, was not crazy at all. For men who paid $500 for a gun, $75 for a fishing rod, $250 for a dog, $1,500 for a horse, said he, Derrydale prices were chicken feed. He was right. Derrydale books sold just as well at $25, $50, $125. Last year Connett sold...