Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case any farmers missed the point, Harry Truman blamed the G.O.P. directly when the price of Illinois corn dropped from $2.29 to 96? a bushel in September. Ahead of and behind the President, Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan also roamed the Midwest, hammering home the same argument. Candidate Dewey, on the other hand, failed to give any specific assurances on the future of price supports. Besides, many farmers just liked the prosperity they had gained in Democratic years...
...jeopardy. On the other hand, the Democratic victory is likely to lead to farm policies which run strongly counter to the principles of the International Trade Program. Truman will support freer trade and the trade organization which is all to the good; he will probably also strengthen agricultural price supports which carry with them export subsidies for agricultural products. This is certainly hard to reconcile with the trade program...
...houses, President Jim Price admits, were nothing but "glorified chicken coops." At war's end the brothers decided a good house could be built from plywood at low prices. They standardized parts, designed them so they were easy to assemble, found ingenious ways to cut costs. They set up assembly lines which can now turn out 16 houses a day in two, three-and four-bedroom models, ranging in price from $7,100 to $10,000. With their own fleet of 35 trucks, they deliver houses right to the lot. Last year they completed 2,500, netted...
...month ago, when Federal Housing Administrator Raymond Foley cracked that "What America needs is a good $6,000 house," the Price brothers sat down to see if it could be done. They substituted an insulated concrete-slab floor for hardwood floors, eliminated the basement in favor of a utility room with a hot-water heater, put an oil heater in the living room and left closets doorless. They got the cost of the unassembled house down to $2,089 f-o.b. the plant. Added costs of erection, wiring, plumbing, etc., said Jim Price, should keep the house under...
...played the favorite national drama - gravely concocting and slowly handing back & forth list upon list of government decrees, which must be "carefully aged, like bottles of rare wine" before they could enter public life. And on the public roads, the previous occupants of these high seats, now paying the price of cooperation with Hitler, were playing the same drama as if they were still in it. "Please, Herr Oberregierungsrat," requested the ex-judge, "will you have the kindness to hand me that shovel?" "With the greatest of pleasure, Your Excellency," replies the ex-ministerial councillor...