Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred students will be accepted for the vacation project, which is designed "to give American students the broadest possible acquaintance with the seaboard countries of Western Europe within nine weeks at a reasonable price," according to an NSA leaflet issued by Richard...
There are only 25 Technicolor cameras in existence (21 in Hollywood, four in England), and they belong to the company. It does not rent them, sell color film, or lend advisers. It simply "sells a service," i.e., films the production for movie companies. The charge is a basic price of 6.22? a foot for final prints (last year's footage...
Consumer resistance to high prices was the chief cause of the biliousness. Yet most manufacturers did nothing to cure it by cutting prices even though hide prices are down 15 to 25% from last fall's peak. Instead, they cut production in hopes that shortages again would make prices more palatable. A few shoe men talked of price cuts-but only vaguely...
Expensive Experiment. General Electric Co. told why it could afford to cut prices (TIME, Jan. 12). On record peacetime sales of $1.3 billion in 1947, it had netted $95,298,940, highest in its 56-year history. But the margin of profit on sales was down (7.2% against 11.6% prewar). The experiment in price cutting, said G.E.'s Charles E. Wilson, will cut gross sales about...
Americans, hopeful of finding some shred of sense in their Government's action, offer oil as a reason. But although Arab oilmen may make threatening gestures at first, in the long run Arab shrewdness will prevail. They realize that America alone has the price for their oil and they are hungry enough for dollars to sell the precious liquid to the United States. Oil alone is not the answer...