Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton) on to Christmas cards, De Beers diamonds ads, etc., offered to buy the picture for 50,000 francs (about $400 at the time). But the canny patron was in no hurry; after the painting was authenticated as Van Gogh's, he upped his price to a good bit more. Lewenthal paid the price, but for "two years of agony" he could not get the picture out of France. "Elements," he explains mysteriously, tried to bilk him of his find. Finally, last July, after a series of trips to France, Lewenthal managed...
...flag tells price of nation's weal...
Traders swarmed into the corn-futures pit waving orders to sell. The selling deluge quickly spread to wheat, oats and rye. Prices tumbled. By week's end, cash corn had dropped 16? to $1.23 a bushel, lowest price in three years. May wheat, worth $3.06 before the 1948 break, slipped down to $2.17, and September futures dropped...
...drop was not only in foods. Some oil companies, in their fourth successive slash in the price of fuel oil, brought the total cut to about 33%. In two months lumber had felt its biggest price spill since war's end. Prices of secondhand automobiles, both "new" and used, came tumbling down. Dealers were so overstocked with "new-used" 1949 models in the higher-priced cars that they had cut their buying offers to 10% and 15% below list prices...
...steel mills. There would be enough room in between the belts for workers to tend the machinery. In this way Stewart hoped to move 29 million tons of coal, 30 million tons of iron ore and 3 million tons of limestone a year-at about half the price of present railroad rates...