Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varsity summaries: Salaun (W) defeated Henry Foster (H), 3-2; Hugh Foster (H) defeated Jones (W), 3-0; McKittrick (H) defeated Travis (W), 3-0; Clark (H) defeated Price (W), 3-0; Nawn (H) defeated Carney (W), 3-0; Heath (H) defeated Vila (W), 3-0; Cabot (H) defeated Robinson (W), 3-0; Fischelis (H) defeated Ackerly (W), 3-0; Plimpton (H) defeated Peters...
...Consumption went up from 600 million Ibs. a year to about 1 billion Ibs. Most of this was in the finer wools. Russia, never a big buyer before the war, had also entered the market in a big way and did not seem to give a hang about the price...
While the prices of other commodities tumbled (see The Economy), the price of wool kept going up & up. At Australian auctions a fortnight ago, fine wool which had sold in 1946 for around 65? a Ib. brought a record price of $2.42¼. Last week, at the Newcastle auctions, it shot up to $2.76¼, and in Tasmania superfine wool went up to $3.53. Reason: a complete change in the world wool supply...
...this pointed to trouble ahead. Australian wool growers feared that high prices might eventually choke off their market. (In the U.S. high prices had already cut the sale of worsteds, and there seemed small hope of sizable price reductions as long as wool prices stayed up.) In San Antonio, F. Eugene Ackerman, executive director of the American Wool Council, warned U.S. textile men that synthetics might displace high-priced woolen fabrics...
Snarling Plan E was a major victory for the Mayor; it proved that his latest machine is coming of age. The "Battle of the Plans" is only a symptom of an underlying tangle in Boston. As long as people are willing to pay the price of bossism because they think that it serves them well-and many Bostonians consider Curley a fine Mayor-they can expect these debacles at almost regular intervals...