Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paying $585.60 a year airmail charges to have TIME flown to him. At that time only 26,000 copies of TIME were going (by surface mail) to the world outside continental North America. There were many requests for faster delivery overseas, but the best air-delivered price we could get was $1 a copy to Rio de Janeiro...
...make peace not only with the Communists, but with his own Premier, Sun Fo, and the entire Nationalist cabinet, now stubbornly entrenched in Canton. Sun Fo and his faction refuse to go along with Li's policy of peace-at-any-price, want to hold out for better terms from the Reds. Last week, Li made a dramatic gesture. He flew south to Canton to bring Sun Fo back into line. At Canton airport, Li and Sun Fo embraced each other. Said a member of Li's staff: "The mountain has come to Mohamed...
...price of three sticks of gum, the New Yorker can escape his harried, subway-riding existence and enter the gaudy, slam-bang world of the tabloid Daily News and Mirror. There life can be newsy, glamorous, compassionate and sinful all at once. In Hearst's Mirror one morning last week, millions of readers of a paternity-suit story met a long-lashed brunette...
...California's Santa Anita, in a ground fog that hid the field from sight part way down the back stretch, Kentucky-owned Old Rockport came from behind to win the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby. The most exciting thing about Old Rockport's victory: his mutuel price...
Economist Kaplan thought it was going to be just a little burp. So did General Electric Co.'s Chairman Philip D. Reed, who thought that the danger from inflation was past, and that the economy is undergoing a "healthy readjustment." President Truman's demand for price and wage controls, said Reed, "just cannot and should not be considered at this delicate period of readjustment.* [It would] give our Government a great deal more power than the Labor government in England has even asked for." (At the White House, President Truman said that even though some prices were leveling...