Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Price of Civilization. Spring has come early and generously to Berlin this year; the sweet-scented lindens touch fragrant fingers to form graceful arches. But Berlin's people breathe the dust of ruins-ruins that have a kind of awful majesty. There is the burned, bombed hulk of the Reichstag with the crows napping foolishly around the beheaded statues on the roof, and the icy stench of a tomb breathing over its bricked-up entrances. A few blocks away along the Wilhelmstrasse, the granite walls of the battered Reichs-chancellery are plastered with neat, wheedling Communist posters: "Mothers...
Such haggling never distracts the Russians from their more serious efforts to cut down Berlin's price. Economic strangulation is advancing steadily, but it is a slow process. Terror is a faster weapon. While Russian propaganda screams that U.S. forces have kidnaped 40,000 Berliners, while it warns in black newspaper headlines BERLIN IS NOT CHICAGO, the MVD proves its mastery of the arts of Capone and Beria. Warning phone calls, threatening letters, shadowing agents are merely the trivial daily nuisances that plague anti-Reds. The MVD's serious work is executed in a garish, blue-grey house...
...Price of a City. This week a U.S. official said: "Berlin is on Moscow's shopping list. If the price is cheap enough, the Russians will wrap it up and take...
...would take a great deal more than the courage of hungry Berliners to keep Berlin's price too steep for Soviet pockets. It would take the steadiness and quiet resolution of the American military commander (to date, exemplary). It would take the effort of countless lesser officials who, despite the vagaries of American policy, continue their little-publicized work of rebuilding Berlin trade unions, newspapers, subways. It would take, also, the resolution of thousands of American men & women who, despite their suburban comfort, belong to this same Berlin which is ringed by enough Soviet tanks and planes, thinly veiled...
...with the New? As expected, many an industry yelped in protest. They argued that the system had actually helped competition: it had kept small producers from being put out of business by price-cutting mammoths. U.S. Steel's Chairman Irving S. Olds cried that elimination of basing points would result in wide dislocations of industry. He appealed to Congress to nullify the Court's decision with a new law. But there was no disputing FTC's stand that the system had caused cementmakers, and many another manufacturer, to set identical-and often rigidly high-prices on products...