Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next 24 hours, all Madrid, titillated by the looming duel of honor, hunted up copies of Press Mission in Spain. Though banned, it could be bought in the black market at 500 pesetas ($20) a copy. The price was steep but rewarding. Serrano Suñer had passed on to the book's author, Journalist Armando Chavez Camacho of Mexico City, a choice comment by Adolf Hitler on Sancho Davila, a burly Falangist bullyboy who had once killed two party rivals in a political brawl, and had long been feuding with Serrano Suñer. Sneered...
After long reflection, Director Heil bought the boy (for a price he regards as his secret) and took him home for a good soap & water scrubbing. By this winter he had reconstructed the sculpture's travels. In the 18303, it was purchased for the royal family of Württemberg and moved from Florence to a palace near Stuttgart; there it remained till after World War I, when a Berlin dealer bought it, later brought it to the U.S., where it wound up in the Manhattan window...
Buyers will now have 21 months (instead of 15 to 18) to pay for goods covered by the regulation. Minimum down payments were cut from 20% to 15% of the purchase price, except for automobiles (which stayed at one-third...
Actually, the price cuts far outnumbered the few increases; the overall wholesale price index was dropping. And there were prospects of more price cuts ahead, if manufacturers wanted to keep their enormous output from piling up. In January, the Department of Commerce reported, manufacturers' sales had taken more than seasonal drops, and inventories had jumped by $400 million, about twice the seasonal increase. Unemployment was still on the rise. The Bureau of the Census reported an estimated total of 3,200,000 jobless in February, highest since 1942. But the rate of increase had slowed up. New claims...
Unless Yale wins tomorrow, tickets for the Dartmouth game will go on sale at the HAA in the basement of the Union, at 9 a.m. Monday morning. Price of tickets will be $2.40 and $1.20 minus the usual HAA coupon discount...