Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rigged economic sails to the Administration's wind. He neatly dodged predicting either inflation or deflation. What the country was going through, he said, was "disinflation" (a five-dollar word for burp). It was quite a different thing from deflation, he explained. Deflation means a collapse in the price structure, but "disinflation" merely takes the upward pressure off prices.* Everything would be all right, he said, if the public would avoid the jitters "over the healthy" decline in prices going...
Teeth. The American Dental Trade Association, which includes makers & sellers of tooth-pulling instruments, faced a little painful dentistry itself. The Federal Trade Commission charged its 144 members with price-fixing and restraint of trade. A.D.T.A. said the charges were "reckless and unfair...
Records. RCA Victor posted the prices for its new small records (TIME, Jan. 17). At 68^? for popular discs and $1 for classical ones, they were a nickel higher than Columbia's small Microgroove records. RCA's player-changer, which will sell for $24.95, was $5 less than Columbia's player, which has no automatic changer. But some retailers had already cut Columbia's price...
...Chicago office of Sears, Roebuck & Co., an employee gives workers the latest market price of the company's stock three times a day. Employees follow the ups & downs of the stock as eagerly as they follow prizefights or baseball games. There is a good reason for their interest: Sears workers own the biggest block of Sears stock...
...sequence with Linda Darnell and Paul Douglas--she as a girl with a price tag and he as a man with the price--is next best. This is partially because Thelma Ritter, as a sharp-tongued servant, is seen more in this episode than in the others. Miss Ritter, with the two Mr. Douglases, are most cordially welcomed to the cinema. And Mr. Mankiewicz deserves considerable congratulations...