Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ride up and slide down will be interested to know that the New Hampshire State Planning Commission in a recent bulletin stated that there are now 47 ski-tows in operation, an increase of fifty percent. Furthermore, an Owners' Association of operators has been formed to raise the price of daily tickets. This infant industry has not been making money, and owners complain that with equipment costing up to $2,000 and weekly overhead averaging $140, they are hardly clearing expenses. A take of $250 a week is necessary for a profit of $1,000 over a ten-week season...
...purchase of $19,303 worth of advertising in the Free Press in 1937 at a price "far in excess of the ... regular advertising rates...
Little over a fortnight ago Harry Wolfe heard the Citizen was secretly planning a 5? Sunday paper to cut into his 10? Sunday Dispatch. Instead of dropping the price of the Dispatch, which takes in 140,000 dimes in Central Ohio, he boldly announced the 5? Sunday Journal, ordered his editors to get it on the street the same day as the Citizen. Syndicate salesmen and jobless Ohio newshawks had a field day as the two new papers got under...
When the Citizen forced Judge Bostwick off the bench, Publisher Wolfe was so hopping mad he slashed the price of the Dispatch to 1?. It is still there, one of the few remaining penny papers in America. The Citizen stayed at 2?, has some 80,000 circulation (Dispatch: 168,000). Scripps officials believe their new Sunday paper will make money, insist the Wolfes' retaliation will be a boomerang. Said one Scripps spokesman: "They are only cutting their own throats...
...distinction was nice. Under the policy of subsidizing crop surplus exports, announced by Secretary Wallace in August, private dealers may negotiate sales abroad at the best price they can get, which tends to be considerably below the U. S. domestic price. If the Government approves the transaction, Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. compensates the exporter for the difference between the prevailing domestic figure and his foreign price...