Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mourned Jean Cocteau, poet, dramatist and conversationalist: "Sometimes after dinner with a celebrated group of brilliant minds, the talk in the salon over the coffee is about the high price of butter and eggs. Such a subject does not lend itself to brilliance!" But anxiety focuses on more than carrots and conversation. In the survey, fewer than one-third of all Europeans believe that there exists "a fairly good chance" to avoid a major war within the next 25 to 30 years. Asked further: "Which side [U.S. or Russia] do you think is gaining ground today and which losing ground...
...students had the choice of eating 10, 14, or 21 meals a week in college dining halls was a war casualty which has not as yet been rehabilitated. All students except commuters are now required to sign for full board at $11.50 a week. This reduced rate, below the price of $13.65 for meals paid for individually, is made possible by the low average of attendance, only 16 meals per week. The administration argues the fairness of holding the rate down on the ground that those who eat some of their meals out, thereby lowering the average, are those...
...price was revealed for the purchase...
...industry is $8.10 a day. In a boom year like 1947, when Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar netted $2,200,000, Maui Agricultural $800,000, that was not an insuperable handicap. But recently world sugar has shown signs of returning to its "normal" condition of overproduction. The Hawaiian price has fallen from its wartime high of $126.40 per ton to $108, seems likely to tumble more. With this prospect, Hawaii's planters must somehow cut their costs. Increased mechanization has helped. Last week's merger, said Baldwin, would 1) wipe out duplicate bookkeeping and other management functions, 2) make...
...house which they are wild to patch up and are promptly advised to tear down. They get a lot of belated advice from their lawyer friend (Melvyn Douglas), and they go into a huddle with an architect (Reginald Denny) who is willing to design practically anything-at a price. Before their homing instinct comes to roost at last they have been put through the wringer by practically every type of swindler involved in, or parasitic upon, the building trades. Blandings saves his neglected job by the skin of his teeth; and for a time even his marriage seems...