Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plugged in every line in Butte County, ringing telephones all up & down the Big Lost River Valley. A man from Pocatello, who had just been offered a one-story building for $10,000, walked across the street to look at another site. When he got back, he found the price had jumped to $17,500. Soon, jalopies were pounding into town and Arco's streets were jammed with jubilant wheat farmers and ranchers, shouting, cheering and recklessly counting their future wealth. The Atomic Energy Commission had just announced that the U.S.'s first nuclear reactor testing station would...
...Connell, the Post Office paid the airlines $94 million in mail pay; in 1949 the bill might run to $125 million. This, he conceded, "is not small change by any means. On the other hand, it is considerably less than what we are spending to support the price of potatoes." In view of the airlines' importance to the economy and to national defense, he thought a good air transport system would be cheap at many times the price. But he favored the Hoover Commission's proposal that subsidies be plainly labeled, instead of being masked as mail...
...spur slumping sales, Kaiser-Frazer Corp. last week took a bold step: it cut auto prices 10% to 15%, by far the biggest reductions made by any automaker since the war. The slash brought the list price of the lowest-priced model, the Kaiser special, to $1,995-a drop of $333. The smallest reduction was $198 on the Frazer. The company said that "starting up" costs had been absorbed and that steel end auto parts were now available at lower prices...
...also brought out a new model, the Traveler, a combination sedan and station wagon with a list price of $2,088. The rear of the Traveler opens up (see cut) and the back seat folds down on the floor, making a lugeage compartment almost as large as a station wagon's. K-F figured the car would be fine for small businessmen and farmers, who could use it as a truck by day, a family car by night...