Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that it tasted and acted almost like butter. Chemists had purified it, changed its consistency and injected it with Vitamin A. They had reduced the size of its water particles so that, when heated, it sizzled and foamed instead of popping and spattering. The only difference (besides its cheaper price) was its color. The dairy lobby had persuaded most states to forbid or restrict the sale of colored oleo; it had prodded Congress in 1902 to impose a 10?-a-pound tax on the colored product...
Mountain Vacations. Drs. Carl R. Moore and Dorothy Price of the University of Chicago told the National Academy of Sciences how they sent some rodents on purposeful vacations. They assembled congenial groups of rats, mice, guinea pigs and hamsters and let them live for a while at pleasant mountain resorts. The idea was to test the theory that high altitudes have an adverse effect on sexual activity. Even at 14,260 feet, all the rodents multiplied with unimpaired efficiency. This altitude, concluded Moore & Price, does not diminish fertility-for rodents, anyway...
Like widening ripples, the effects of U.S. Steel Corp.'s $25 million price cut last week splashed through the industry. One after another, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., Bethlehem Steel Corp. and Jones & Laughlin announced price cuts from $1 to $5 a ton, even though first-quarter profits were down. (Big Steel's were down to $33,957,341 v. $39,234,511 last year.) Republic Steel Corp., third biggest steelmaker, was studying prices, had not yet acted. In all, the nation's steel bill had been cut about $80 million a year, not quite what...
Would the cuts be passed on to consumers? There were no signs of it, especially in the auto industry, biggest steel user. The recent increase in freight rates had more than canceled out the savings in steel. So some automobile prices were still rising. (Last week the Ford Motor Co. upped the price of its new Mercury, a heavier...
Management was determined to hold down wages, chiefly because it feared that it could no longer pass along such boosts to price-conscious consumers. Result: the third-round drive has made little progress to date. For the C.I.O., the hard-boiled meat-packers union had carried the ball-and run into a stone wall. After seven weeks of striking against Armour, Wilson, Swift and others, meat production was back up to 80% of normal...