Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bevin rumbled: "[The trial] is utterly repugnant . . ." Six thousand Britons jammed London's Albert Hall, while thousands waited outside in the rain, some kneeling in prayer: speaker after speaker denounced the Budapest trial. Cried one: "Christ is indeed the Prince of Peace, but not of peace at any price...
Shopkeepers and restaurant men clicked their abacuses busily. The price of food climbed hourly until dinner for three at the Eighth Heaven atop the New Asia Hotel cost $33 U.S. Not all could stand the pace. Said one minor government official: "All my family has had to eat for a week is bananas...
...farmers live about as well as before the war," said Kenjo Otsuka, a short, grinning ex-soldier of 31, "and former tenants live better than they did. But the price of what we sell has not kept up with the price of what we buy." A koku (about five bushels) of rice, which before the war sold for $8, now sells for $14. The bicycle that every farmer needs has risen from...
...York Daily News, biggest U.S. daily, was not feeling so chesty. It reported a January circulation of 2,175,000 daily, 4,500,000 Sunday. That was well down from the peak of 2,409,000 daily in the fall of 1947, before the News raised its price from...
...small office in Wilmington, Del., E. Herbert Tinney performed an annual rite. A onetime accountant for Price, Waterhouse & Co., Herbert Tinney earns $5,700 a year as the only paid officer-secretary and assistant treasurer-of Christiana Securities Co. Last week he sent out Christiana's annual report. In 1948, the company had netted $28.4 million, a substantial gain over the $23.3 million earned in 1947. For each of Christiana's 150,000 common shares, this was an earning of $182.72. Tinney mailed out all but 2? a share of this to Christiana's select little band...