Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less for Clothes. Prospects were not that bullish all around. In clothing, food and shoes, the price trend was still down. Following the lead of Crawford Clothes, Inc. (TIME, Oct. 25), two suitmakers, a shirtmaker, and a big men's wear retailer last week announced price cuts ranging from 6% to 20%. And the Department of Labor reported that food prices dropped 0.6% from mid-August to mid-September, with the result that the cost of living remained the same in mid-September as a month before, ending a steady advance of five months. (The index has still...
...problem of buying for all ages is simplified by the Toy Guidance Council Inc., financed by 175 manufacturers and retailers. This year it is distributing 1,500,000 Toy Yearbooks describing 200 toys which help children to learn to count and spell. Examples: Play and Count book (price: $1.25), magnetized "Pick-up-Stix" (69?), the "Playskool Counting House" scale, which balances only when weighted numbers on both sides add up to the same figure...
Explosion? Haloid thought Xerography was just the thing to make the old but small company (its biggest net was $307,891 in 1941) a big one. Since June, when gossip about Xerography started, the price of Haloid's common stock has gone from 13½ to around...
...owned enough rye to scare the daylights out of Minneapolis' Cargill, Inc., the world's biggest grain trader. Cargill had sold rye short and would have lost its shirt if it could not have bought grain to cover its contracts before the near corner drove the price skyhigh. The court shook its head over the slick trick Cargill, Inc. had used to import Canadian rye cheaply and break the market. Cargill apparently had been able to do so by crawling through a loophole in the law that permitted the import of rye free of duty, if it were...
...which were about to be dumped on the market-though it and Rice already controlled almost 89% of deliverable rye. The court held, in effect, that this was no cornering move; General Foods was merely following the sound trading practice of protecting its heavy investment in rye against a price slump...