Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coffee, 15?. The prices were an indication of the times. Some 47,000 grandstand seats along the parade route were sold out-at $2 to $10 a throw. Street concessionaires posted their price lists: coffee, 15?; hot dogs, 20?. Washington hotels had been booked solid for months-some at triple the normal rate-and clamorous visitors were begging for sleeping space as far away as Philadelphia and Pittsburgh...
...eyes bulged with fear edging on hysteria. She had traveled all day from a village north of Berlin where her husband is a physician. Dr. K., a Stalingrad prisoner, was released a year ago and soon resumed his old practice. The local MVD eyed his success and set their price. He was summoned and instructed to use his office as an intelligence center, to submit reports on all his patients, some of whom were suspected of being "enemies of democracy." He refused. He was told that if he remained intransigent, he would be imprisoned. When he finally told his wife...
...true faith of an Armorer [is] to give arms to all men who offer an honest price for them . . . to Royalist and Republican, to Communist and Capitalist . . . to burglar and policeman, to black man, white man and yellow man, to all nationalities, all faiths, all follies...
...Lower Price? The Communist terms included: punishment of "war criminals"; uprooting of "traditional institutions" accepted by the Kuomintang; abrogation of "traitorous" treaties (one consistently attacked in Communist propaganda gives the U.S. the right to base naval forces at Tsingtao); convocation of a Political Consultative Conference . . . "to take over all power from the Kuomintang reactionary government"; and reorganization of Chinese armies...
Dormitory work chairmen voiced approval of the measure at a meeting last Tuesday as the only way to keep the $40 a year price increase from going even higher, Student Government president Joan Projansky '49 said yesterday. The additional student work hours will reduce service costs in the dorms...