Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mill hand in Lille, lived for years with Maurice Thorez, eventually married him. She has the reputation of being a hard, intelligent party worker. Rank & filers like her for being a roughhewn, no-nonsense kind of a wife to Thorez (and to Communism), who can talk about the price of butter...
Operation Giant Bear. When the Generalissimo first appointed him to the economic post last month, Chiang Ching-kuo started out quietly by ordering price ceiling lists displayed at all markets, and setting up post boxes for citizens' complaints. A hundred plainclothes agents were assigned to comb streets and markets for price violators and hoarders...
...million shares on the market in what Shanghai papers dubbed "Operation Giant Bear." Promptly arrested as broker for the deal was Tu Vee-pin, son of Tu Yueh-sheng, president of Shanghai's stock exchange and one of the most powerful men in Shanghai. Big merchant hoarders and price riggers were also pulled...
...Miranda's tough-trading direction, IAPI in the postwar years rolled up huge profits buying wheat and other foodstuffs cheap from Argentine farmers and selling abroad for all the traffic would bear. Lately Miranda's all-the-traffic-will-bear policy has backfired. Because he jacked the price of linseed oil skyhigh, U.S. farmers took up flax-growing. Result: the U.S. this year produced its first exportable surplus of linseed oil in history. Argentina has lost its U.S. and British markets, and IAPI is stuck with 325,000 tons of the stuff...
...volume revealing "intimate and startling details of the romantic and domestic side" of each author. The first two of these treasures will be published next week, entitled W. Somerset Maugham Presents Charles Dickens' David Copperfield and W. Somerset Maugham Presents Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. The $3.50 price tag might seem high, though, to readers who could get the same books entire-without Mr. Maugham's abridgments...