Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farmers faced an uncertain future. Continue farm price support, said Truman ; restore CCC authority to build more storage bins...
...bustling Nanking street, a newsboy said, "When headlines cry peace, it's easy to sell papers." Last week, the newsboy sold a lot of papers. A mounting clamor for peace with the Communists, at almost any price, was sweeping Nationalist China's crumbling fronts...
Everywhere in Moscow, it seems, it is the same shocking story. At the theater: "Binoculars are offered and a question about price is answered, 'As you like.' You take a program and again hear, 'Whatever you want to give.' ... All this is done so sweetly and politely ... It is disgusting because it is so degrading, and often it is just an easy but dishonest way to profiteer...
Work to Do. Eying profits, many a consumer asked whether industry had done its share to keep prices and inflation down. Many a company had not. Said Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer: "In some cases, price increases have been more than necessary to cover costs, and have contributed to the inflationary spiral...
What little slack there was suddenly disappeared. Industrial production moved up again; the National Industrial Conference Board's consumers' price index shot up to the highest point in its 34-year history; employment, which had been holding steady, began to climb; in July it reached an alltime peak of 61,615,000. The labor shortage, in the words of one depressed Chicago personnel manager, "is worse than steel." And the U.S. had its first $1-a-pound roundsteak...