Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mason Owlett, descended on the governor's office in Harrisburg, singly and in angry droves. To all, Big Jim had the same answer: "If you think I'm going to give you a free seat in the grandstand at the same time I'm raising the price of the bleacher seats, you're crazy." After the tax bills had passed, he remarked to a friend: "Those bastards are so accustomed to getting their own way they make blueprints for their track and start scheduling trains over it right away. When the trains...
...Passed the Fellows bill to admit 202,000 D.P.s over the next two years, a more generous formula than the Senate's discriminatory Wiley-Revercomb bill. ¶ Passed a farm-price support bill to continue present support policy until 1950. ¶ Received the Andrews draft bill from its Rules Committee, where it had been bottled up for five weeks...
That touched many an Irish heart. John Aloysius Costello, the Taoiseach, announced that he would himself go to London and offer the canned beef at a more attractive price. James Dillon, the Minister of Agriculture and a grand one with a ringing phrase, told why Eire could do no less: "We will never ask [the British] to feed on canned horse ... It is one of the destinies reserved by God for the Irish to chasten the British-and to cherish them in their hour of adversity...
...square feet of windows and a new-fangled heating and ventilating unit, the 1949 Ford has an optional six-or eight-cylinder motor. The traditional (and hard riding) transverse springs have been replaced by coil springs in the front, leaf springs parallel to the frame in the rear. Price of the '49 Ford: $1,163 and up, f.o.b. Detroit, an average increase...
...written the memo, but said that his purpose was merely to call attention to "inconsistencies in Government lard purchase policies." The Department's Commodity Exchange Authority thought differently. Last week it charged that the memo was a trick of Moore's to spread false reports and boost prices for his own profit. At the time the memo was issued, said CEA, Moore was "long" (i.e., betting that the price would go up) on 1,900,000 pounds of lard futures. In the preceding 21 months, added CEA, Moore had made $445,000 trading in commodity futures...