Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over Dixie. South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank said that his state would follow Virginia's lead. His colleague, Senator Olin Johnston, proposed that the Democrats draft Secretary of State George Marshall. Arkansas' Senator John McClellan came out for Harry Byrd. Even at the price of defeat, Georgia's Senator Walter George looked forward to a party shakeup after the election, with Southerners taking a stronger grip...
...proclamation was delivered where it would do the most good, at the annual meeting of the archconservative Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association in Philadelphia. Ostensibly, Big Jim's theme was inflation. The best cure for it, he told the PMAsters, is a price rollback. No matter how unpleasant this medicine might be, "industry ought to set the example by taking the first dose." After all, said Big Jim, with record earnings industry can well afford the risk...
...Uncle Joe says. But Big Jim, after hearing the Grundy man out, took his feet off his desk, stood up and roared: "If you think I'm going to give you a free seat in the grandstand at the same time [that] I'm raising the price of the bleacher seats, you're crazy." The tax bills passed...
Heavy taxation, small investment, and direct price control on some commodities epitomized Professor Harris' solution of inflation, while Professor Schumpeter advocated light taxation and large investment...
...dent had the commodity price break made in the cost of living? Last week Ewan Clague, boss of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, called reporters into his chart-filled conference room to tell them. He had just finished collecting last-minute data, by telegraph, from twelve cities, kept his staff up most of the night assembling it. Said Clague: retail food prices have declined 3 to 4% from their alltime high...