Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bigger the crop, the bigger would be the Government subsidy. In the great harvest, some estimates were that the farm price support program would cost the taxpayer $1.5 billion. As for high prices, as far as anyone could see now, the consumer would have to go on paying them...
Those inflationary pressures had sent the cost of living to a new high, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week. By mid-July (latest recorded figures), the consumers' price index was up 9.7% over last year, up 76.2% over 1939. Food prices were up 12.3% over last year, up 131.9% over...
...Touch. But all his life he had walked a financial tightrope. He had tried to engineer a pool to raise the price of Devoe & Raynolds common stock in 1926, had gone resoundingly broke to the tune of $3,000,000. He had piled venture on venture, money on money. In the '30s, he had formed a working partnership with Joseph Watkins, a cultivated, gracious man, like Brooks a native of Minnesota, a Harvard graduate, and a financier. They worked together, dined together, and made money together. Then Brooks seemed to lose his touch. Watkins was forced to supply more...
...Modern football is speed. Give me four players-a center, a good passing back and two tall, sprinting ends-and you can have the rest." Voyles outbid the National League's Pittsburgh Steelers for a "good passing back" named Bob Chappuis, Michigan's 1947 All-America (the price: about...
...name as donor on the inside cover) for his local library. "Heavy antique stock," the prospectus brags, "will give the magazine its fine library appeal guaranteed to keep its timbre and color for a century." In four years, Malcolm hopes to get 100,000 circulation, and cut his price to a mere $100 a year...