Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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True, they fixed Big Business with a cold and fishy stare. Some patent lawyers were inclined to believe that a patent-holder's case was as good as lost if it ever reached the Supreme Court. The court cracked down on anything that looked like collusive price-fixing. Tax lawyers were chiefly concerned with keeping their cases out of the highest court's hands...
...postwar shortage of goods, the fact is that the overpriced pound was not a disadvantage. Buyers wanted the goods badly enough to buy, no matter what the price tags said. Now, however, world production is catching up with demand. Sellers have to compete because buyers turn away from the high price tags...
...domestic price level has been falling since last September. That means that a dollar buys more than it did last year. This, in turn, means that a pound buys still less, relative to $4.03, than it did a year ago. In other words, any British price tag, unchanged for a year, is now really higher because the dollars needed to buy the pounds to buy the article are worth more than they were before...
...more certain that devaluation will increase the cost of imports than we are that it would increase the volume of exports. In the face of the U.S. recession, how do we know we can sell more British goods in the U.S. even if devaluation lowers the dollar price tags? If American domestic prices continue to fall, we would merely have to devalue again. The time to devalue is when U.S. and Continental internal price levels have attained stability...
...offset its staleness, Territory has several passages of refreshing cinematic excitement. The train robbery has a pleasant flavor of old-style westerns. For admirers of the great outdoors, the shots of McCrea's flyspeck flight across a stupendous cliff face are alone worth the price of admission...