Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some steel stands seats will also be sold on a season basis--"Good tickets in the steel stands... at an even lower price...
...records is definitely good for the consumer. Both records have greater quality possibilities than old-type records, and they are cheaper. The Columbia record has the advantage of presenting classical music without annoying breaks. The competition between the records has proved a bonanza for the buyer with numrous price slashes evident everywhere...
...feeling of helplessness came from trying to put an exact price tag on what it would cost to meet the unknown. Texas' shy, scholarly George Mahon, chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee, made the point: "If war comes too soon we are appropriating too little. If we have miscalculated the dangers, if the threat of war is just a deceptive mirage on the horizon, we are appropriating too much...
...Hall Clothes buys most of its fabrics from other mills and hires other manufacturers to make most of its clothes, it could pick up goods cheaply and make bargain deals with suitmakers. Thus it could balance off the slump in its own textile operations and go after the newly price-conscious U.S. consumer. Said Jake Schwab: "We're the A. & P. of the clothing business, and that's what the business needs most right...
...Prices. Two more auto companies joined the price-cutting parade. Hudson Motor Car Co. shaved list prices by $15 to $100 (1% to 3.4%) in its first postwar reduction, and Britain's Austin Motor Co. Ltd. lopped off $75 to $200. Following its recent auto cuts, General Motors Corp. cut prices 5% on diesel locomotives ($5,000 to $8,200 a unit), the first general price reduction in the industry since 1939. Said G.M.: "Unfilled [diesel] orders are at the highest point in history...