Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Romans celebrated democracy's victory, swarms of the city's ragged children roamed the streets, tearing down election posters in order to sell them as scrap for a few lire. It was a sharp reminder that the danger was far from over. The victors still had a price to pay for their 18 million anti-Communist votes. The price was land and bread for Italy's workers and peasants...
...still suffers from typographical schizophrenia: modern headlines adjoin archaic one-word holdovers of Civil War days. But the Enquirer can afford to move slowly; it has a monopoly on the morning field. There was a fair chance that the Enquirer's trustees had put too high a price on the paper. Bids, due May 15, might not come within a mile of the $10 million the trustees hoped...
...became its general director in 1923, announced a new goal. The association would now like to see the principles of psychosomatic medicine applied to childbirth. Said Miss Corbin, a vigorous, greying 53: "The emergency death-preventing job which has been done in maternity care has exacted a price in emotional coinage and human dignity. When the obstetric care of the mother was moved from the home to the hospital to save life, childbearing was transported from the natural, intimate .human atmosphere of the family to the atmosphere of sickness, abnormality and death which permeate hospital care...
...later the Greystone Press issued American Sexual Behavior and the Kinsey Report, a kind of Kinsey-made-easy, without difficult graphs and tables. Price: $1.96. The authors, leftish Lawyer Morris L. Ernst and David Loth, a publicity man, dedicate their book to Kinsey and his associates, "who have enriched the market place of thought...
General Electric's C. E. Wilson found that his price cuts last January had not hurt him at all, because business volume had increased. G.E.'s net of $25.3 million was a whopping 42% over 1947's first quarter. In fact, Charlie Wilson thought he could afford to cut prices again, saving his customers $10 million a year...