Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only the wrinkle in Molotov's forehead and the puff of George Marshall's lips had prevented complete agreement between the U.S. and Russia all these months. An anonymous Nanking man-in-the-street was more realistic: "Heng hao" (very good), said he. "Now will the price of rice go down...
Other people began to wonder about the price of rice-and of peace. Was the U.S. indeed striving for peace-or for appeasement? The U.S. had not told any of its friends what it was doing; some Western European diplomats felt as though a vague but vast doublecross was going on over their heads. One Paris theory: that the U.S. would withdraw support from Western Union in exchange for a Russian promise to muzzle Communist parties outside Russia and the satellite states. The other, more widespread-guess among Europe's startled statesmen was that the U.S. was merely trying...
...lacks Prio's easy geniality and glad hand with voters. Critics think him humorless, high-handed, reactionary. But he has promised not to undo any of the revolution's social legislation. For victory on June 1, he counts on three factors: 1) popular dissatisfaction over black markets, price profiteering, 100 unpunished political murders; 2) dissension inside the Prio camp; 3) Independent Candidate Eddy Chibas' ability to take votes away from Prio and thus to help the Nunez campaign...
...city tells us only one thing that is plain: its price is not merely the price of some desperate rubble, or even of three million German lives; it is, in large measure, the going price of freedom in spring, 1948. This great tomb of Naziism (and of the West's brittle illusion that you could do business with Communism) stands on the sad, sandy Brandenburg plain to test, perhaps for all time, the West's will and worth...
Test Run. The first shipment of British-built Ford cars, the Anglia and Prefect, were landed in New York. The cars, smaller and more expensive than U.S. Fords, have four-cylinder, 30-h.p. motors and do 28 miles on a gallon of gas. The price, f.o.b. New York: $1,395.64 for a two-door Anglia; $1,620.95 for a four-door Prefect. Young Henry Ford expects to bring in 12,000, thus make his own test of the U.S. market for small cars...