Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sealed in this farm crib are 5,400 bushels of 1948 corn on which the Government has loaned $1.42 a bushel. If this corn had had to be sold when cribbed, it would have brought $1.25. Thus Mr. Roth is $918 ahead by sealing it. If the price goes above $1.42 before Sept. i, 1949, Farmer Roth can sell it and pay his loan. If the price remains below $1.42, Roth will simply deliver the corn to CCC on Sept. 1, 1949 in full payment of loan. Many such loans as this are being made. All that is required...
With such words ringing in their ears, the C.I.O. delegates made big political plans. After pausing long enough to throw a scare into the Reds in their midst (see below), they talked of farmer-labor unity, discussed Government housing programs, price control, civil rights, medical insurance and federal aid to education. Said C.I.O. President Philip Murray: "We will obtain enactment of many important pieces of humanitarian legislation...
...what did labor, with its new power and its new responsibility, want in its own field? To some, it looked as if the answer was simply that it wanted a hand in management. Answering Henry Ford II's statement that a fourth round of wages would necessitate higher prices, the U.A.W.'s Emil Mazey declared: "Our bargaining team can show Mr. Ford next spring that he can give a wage increase without raising the price of automobiles. Our experts will be glad to sit down with him and his associates, go over his books, and show...
Among the individualistic stores paying no attention to the storekeeper's favorite season, is J. Press, at present in the throes of a giant bargain sale. No holly for J. Press while yet one reduced-price topcoat remains unsold...
Alexander Dumas would smile at his characters in this gem: they are all as he would have them, exceptionally good or horrendously evil. Vincent Price as Richelieu is oily and sinister, with just a dash of greed. Frank Morgan as Louis XIII is weak and vacillating. The heroine is June Allyson, who is totally incapable of portraying anyone not pure and naive. Lana Turner plays Lady de Winter, the cruel, unscrupulous femme fatale; she is grotesquely miscast, but retains a certain innate charm...