Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Springfield, Mass., Rabbi Samuel Price jolted his listeners on a Brotherhood Week program by suggesting an official "Week of Hate." Said he: "It would be much better to have the one week in 52 dedicated to hate, a week when we would all be able to get the hate out of our systems, treat one another as badly as we know how, and then observe the remaining 51 weeks as Brotherhood Weeks...
Television sets have become as obligatory to the bar & grill business as an ivory stick [for] beer suds." And bars that advertised "big screen" drew the customers. One of the biggest king-sized screens, Tradio's 18 by 22 ft. model (see cut), also had a king-sized price...
...sharp price rise in cotton last week was also sparked by the Government. The rise was based on a deal for the Government's Export-Import Bank and private banks to extend credits of $120 million to Japan for the purchase of U.S. cotton. Next day cotton futures soared as much as $1.75 a bale, to $172.30, highest closing price in a month...
...should the world's wheat be distributed-and at what price? In Washington last week, after more than a year of dickering, the 36-nation International Wheat Council (notably unrepresented: Russia and Argentina) had an answer. It announced "the first practical international agreement" on wheat distribution...
...divide the day-long session in half, the people spent two hours over the dinner table heaped with meat, beans, salads, brown bread, pie, and coffee. Here they exchanged the latest gossip, talked about taxes, fire protection, and the price of milk. Then they went back upstairs to the meeting hall, the moderator called the meeting to order again and election of officers took place...