Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President cut the last thin thread between him and the man he had fired from his Cabinet. Said Harry Truman: "I do not want and 1 will not accept the political support of Henry Wallace and his Communists. If joining them or permitting them to join me is the price of victory, I recommend defeat. These are the days of high prices for everything, but any price for Wallace and his Communists is too high a price for me. I'm not buying them...
...storm arrives. Dr. Deacon also believes that a competent oceanographer might make a good living by setting up a wave recorder on the coast of Chile and watching for storms approaching from the lonely South Pacific. When he noted the telltale swells, he could warn shipping companies (for a price) not to start loading cargo at poorly protected harbors...
...young salesman, Eugene F. McDonald Jr. hurt his head in an auto accident and became deaf in one ear. When he became the hard-driving boss of Chicago's Zenith Radio Corp., one of the biggest U.S. radiomakers, McDonald was shocked at the price of hearing aids. If a complete radio receiver sold for only $29, why should a simple amplifier (only part of a radio) cost more than six times as much? McDonald thought he could produce hearing aids as cheaply as radios and make them a profitable sideline...
...committee held out little hope that annual economies might reduce the costs of operating the Houses. Electricity and heating costs have gone up in the past months with the increased price of coal, according to Fischelis, and there is doubt that any meter system would save enough to offset the cost of administering...
...squeeze is on. The price of a Harvard education, like the price of a Columbia education, or a Yale, or a Dartmouth, or a Princeton education, is jumping, one large hop at a time, to the point where it will be within the range of none but the proverbial rich man's son. This is a tendency that makes nobody happy. It is a trend that provides no more pleasure for the administration, whose policy has been to democratize admissions and to broaden the student body of Harvard College, than it does for those non-scholarship students who cannot afford...