Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things nicer for farmer and consumer, and that meant everybody. But how much would it cost and who would pay for it? Charlie Brannan wasn't able to say offhand what the cost would be; he thought it would be no more than the cost of the present price-support program (an estimated $860 million this fiscal year, an unpredictable part of which may be recouped in later years by the Government in sales of stored surpluses). But for those who liked their arithmetic plain, the answer seemed too familiar. It looked as if the rabbit might save...
Teetotaler Cripps made only one cheering concession: a reduction in the retail price of beer by a penny a pint. But food prices, he said, could be held down only by giving higher government subsidies to food-growers and dealers-and this he was in no position to do. Instead, he announced that meat prices would have to go up 7? a pound, cheese 7?, butter 3?, margarine 2?. Matches and telephone calls would also cost more...
...hawkers have kept up their professional spirits. They hang around street corners, clinking gleaming stacks of coins, their orthodox blue Chinese gowns topped by broad-brimmed brown fedoras that give them, from the neck up, that zooty air usually associated with Broadway characters in Li'l Abner. The price of their coins, like the price of everything else, has climbed dizzily...
...tunghsi, or curio salesmen, find business rough. Their bronzes, brasswork and jade figurines bring only a quarter of the price they commanded last winter. One tunghsi man reminisces mournfully: "The mandarin coats-ah! We used to sell them for $20 apiece. When we ran out of real ones we went to the undertakers and bought up their supply of secondhand burial clothes. The burial clothes were even more ornate, and the Americans were twice as happy...
...some lines, buying had dropped off in spite of price cuts. Nash cut its prices $20 to $120; Willys, whose recent cut had brought no notable sales spurt, went on a four-day week. Car dealers complained that the spring buying wave had been a ripple instead of the hoped-for comber...