Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fairbanks, Alaska, whiskey prices went back to normal after a month-long price war during which a fifth sold for as little...
Field's asking price was high: $1,250,000, plus an assurance that the buyer had $500,000 in working capital and was "a decent fellow." Would he sell to someone who didn't share PM's Left-Field politics? Said Field: "Out of respect to the name PM,I would not sell to a known Communist." Apart from that, he added, the future owner's political convictions are "none of my business...
Miracle of Fleet Street. The Herald was born in a printers' strike in 1911, when the printers took their case to the public in a four-page sheet (price: one halfpenny). Three months later, when the printers won their demands and returned to their own papers, they gave up the Daily Herald and its 20,000 readers...
...boasts has set his competitors' teeth on edge. The100-odd makers of U.S. hearing aids are well aware that their market is potentially rich. An estimated 3,000,000 Americans are deaf enough to use hearing aids. But only 800,000 do. One reason is the price. Most units sell for between $100 and $200 and cost the user about $75 to $100 a year for batteries. Another reason is vanity. The hard of hearing hate to admit...
Many companies worried less about prices than the psychological approach. One method has been to make receivers smaller and less noticeable. Maico Co., Inc. goes after women customers with receivers that look like earrings, costing $231 (TIME, June 16). Beltone Hearing Aid Co. was plugging a 5-oz., 3-in. by 2-in. amplifier as the "world's smallest hearing aid" (price: $167.50). The aid, said Beltone, used the same principle as the proximity fuse developed during...