Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect." On the contrary, said Acheson, "even without the existence of the North Atlantic pact, the need for assistance and the recommended response of this Government would be the same." So, he concluded emphatically: "These requests and our replies therefore in no sense represent a price tag to be placed upon the pact...
Secretary Brannan proposed to let the price of food fall where it would on a free market, while guaranteeing farmers a whopping big cash income, no matter how cheaply their crops sold in the marketplace. To hear him tell it he had "a method which not only protects the farmer but gives consumers a real break...
...instance, Brannan went on, the farm price for eggs would be set at 45.8? a dozen next year. If eggs dropped to 35? the Government would just pay the farmer 10.8? for every dozen he sold at that price. Result: the farmer would still have his 45.8? ; the consumer would have cheap eggs. That way, said Brannan triumphantly, the consumer wouldn't have to pay twice for the subsidies; once in taxes and again in high food bills...
...playing surface. The coach door opened and his Honor the Acting Governor William Addis struggled out and mounted the stands to his official box. The crowd was hushed as the Governor spoke. "I now open Rugby Week," he said. The crowd thought briefly of the half crown admission price and then cheered good naturedly. Two teams surged onto the turf. Rugby Week in Bermuda had indeed begun, and for pomp and parties, there is nothing quite like...
Douglas had been known in Hollywood as a competent actor (The Walls of Jericho, A Letter to Three Wives'), but Champion promptly doubled his price per picture. Warner Brothers took one look and signed him up for a seven-year, nine-picture deal at just under $1,000,000. His first two pictures for Warner will be Dorothy Baker's Young Man with a Horn and Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. He will also continue to do one film a year for Screen Plays, Inc., the welterweight studio which produced Champion...