Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fierce rivalry existed between the ships. One installed a 34-whistle calliope, regaled the countryside with Swanee River. Price wars were frequent, and races common. Many races ended with bursting boilers...
Many were experienced huntsmen, but the high price of meat had also attracted fledglings to the field. When the season ended, the bag was the biggest in Colorado's history: 68,000 mule deer, 12,000 elk, 99 bears - along with countless cattle, horses and sheep, 17 dead and 13 wounded hunters...
Near the top in below-ground joints is the Plaza Bar, moderate in price and crowded to the door. The intimate atmosphere is the stock-in-trade of the Bella Vista, which has no dancing...
...agreement with the Russian bloc. When Britain pinched off the flow of oil to Haifa's refineries in the hope of stalling Israel's military machine, Romania soon came forward with an attractive deal, proposing to supply all the oil Haifa could handle at a nominal price. The single hitch was that all excess gas would be sold to Eastern Europe, and for this reason the pact was rejected by the Israeli government. Any Anglo-American sanctions on Israel would force the government into a similar deal almost immediately...
...were favorable to Gulbenkian. For waiving any claims to Aramco's oil, Gulbenkian will get a bigger share of Iraq Petroleum's oil (as will the French, who went along on the deal). Beginning in 1952, Gulbenkian will be able to buy the extra oil at a price halfway between cost and market price. When he sells, the proceeds will be protected against devaluation of the British pound; the American companies agreed to convert Gulbenkian's take into hard dollars...