Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already exasperated with the United States ... [He would probably be] more annoyed by [it] than by Wall Street ... It will take a long series of five-year plans before the Soviet woman can buy a dress, a hat or a pair of shoes for anything near the price a New York working girl paid for her Easter outfit...
...highest price the U.S. had ever paid for its security in peacetime-almost four times Franklin Roosevelt's entire first budget. But far from trying to trim it down, the U.S. House of Representatives last week added a few hundred millions of dollars to what President Truman had asked. Then with a heavy sense of urgency, some sane and some not-so-sane oratory, and a frank admission of helplessness, the House approved the record $15.9 billion defense bill...
...Last month; Hiram Walker got a similar injunction against Sloppy Joe's liquor store in Denver for selling Imperial whisky at $3.99-$4.50 a quart (fair-trade price...
...Congress, federal fair-trade laws also were under attack. Brooklyn's Democratic Congressman Donald L. O'Toole introduced a bill to repeal the Miller-Tydings Act of 1937, which permits states to pass price-fixing laws that might otherwise violate the federal antitrust...
Bottles & Bonuses. Pepsi has cut costs (minor item: its annual art awards have been abandoned), and the company has a new eight-ounce bottle to sell for 5? at race tracks and ball parks. For home consumption, there is still the old twelve-ounce bottle (new price: 6?). Pepsi also has a new syrup pump for drugstores; at the first plunge, it plays the Pepsi jingle. To cash in on these new ideas, Mack has brought Coca-Cola Vice President Al Steele into the company as sales boss...