Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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THOMAS C. PRICE Baltimore...
...hundred years and more, a tinto has sold for 5 centavos. Last week inflation-harried café owners asked the price control board to raise the ceiling price to 10 centavos (6?). From Colombians who had shrugged off other price boosts rose a thunder of protest that boomed across the misty Bogota savannah to echo in subtropical Cali and industrial Medellin...
...free to all. In Bogota's Cafe El Dorado, a grey-maned lawyer declaimed: "They're trying to tax a tradition-aye, exploit friendship itself!" In La Botella de Oro, a young sculptor shouted: "The birthright of all Bogotanos-a harmless vice, our oldest tradition. Double the price? No hay derecho! (They have no right...
...coke plant for a minimum rental of $300,000 a year. "Not enough," snapped Larson. Charlie White decided to stand pat. Larson offered the plant to Republic for $2,500,000 a year and White turned him down flat. Larson then offered to arbitrate the price but White refused. Then, early this month, White played some aces. With only a few weeks for his interim lease to run, he threatened to shut off production unless "satisfactory arrangements" were made by the Aug. 31 expiration date...
Meat. In Chicago, steers brought $41.35 per 100 Ibs., 10? higher than the previous alltime record; hogs brought $31.85, 35? over the previous record which had stood for 15 days. But the price of corn, meat's raw material, was already coming down: prospects of a bumper crop drove corn down 6? to 13? a bushel during the week...