Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long last, Anna Roosevelt Boettiger got rid of her floundering Phoenix Arizona Times. The new majority stockholder is G. Hamilton Beasley, a wealthy Los Angeles investment broker with a home near Phoenix. The minority stockholders are a dozen Phoenix business and professional men. The sale price was a secret, but Phoenicians gossiped that Anna and her backers had lost their shirts and that the new owners merely assumed the paper's bills. The new publisher of the Times is Columbus Giragi, bombastic New Deal-hating political columnist...
...teams: the majority of them were ex-G.I.s, many were married, and some had kids at home. At one training table, nobody followed the ancient Greek rule - designed to prevent dyspepsia and headaches - that only the lightest topics be discussed at mealtimes. The conversation volleyed from the high price of neckties to reincarnation (one sprinter wanted to come back as a dog, another as a race horse). Then it lit on the most dyspeptic subject of all - track. The lean steeplechaser asked a half-miler: "Does all that sugar and dextrose you guys fill up on help...
Dictionary Publisher Adam Wagnalls (born Wagenhals) of Funk & Wagnalls was born in' Lithopolis in 1843. When daughter Mabel Wagnalls Jones died two years ago, in Manhattan, she left most of her estate to the little town. Last week tax appraisers finally put a price tag on her unusual bequest. The money hadn't been left to the citizens themselves (though several tried to collect their "share"), but to the Wagnalls Memorial...
...expected the steel industry raised prices on its major products last week. U.S. Steel Corp. set the pace with an average boost of $9.34 a ton, and most other steelmakers followed with about the same amount. The increases will add an estimated $575 million a year to the U.S. steel bill, and send up the prices of durable goods all along the line. First to speak up were appliance makers, who predicted substantial price hikes for ranges, refrigerators, washing machines, etc., within four weeks. Yet many an industry, notably the automakers, had hardly finished raising prices to meet the third...
...line with most automakers, General Motors Corp. last week raised all its auto prices 8% to make up for increases in pay and materials (up $80 to $1,160 on a Stylemaster Chevrolet business coupé; up $119 to $1,685 on a Buick Special 4-door sedan). And Chrysler Corp.'s K. T. Keller said that other carmakers would have to start figuring new retail price increases as a result of the steel boost. Said Keller: "When our costs go up, prices have to follow." Automobile men guessed that the price rises would average over...