Word: pricing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your article entitled "Why U.S. Housing Costs Too Much" [June 7] expressed the problem in a concise manner. I wonder what the price of a new Chevrolet would be if G.M. had to make it with 15-in. wheels for New York and 16-in. wheels for Los Angeles or with a twelve-volt battery in Chicago and a six-volt battery in Philadelphia. I hope that more articles will educate the public to problems such as codes, rising labor costs, mortgage markets, land prices and many others faced by the builder today...
Isolated deep within hostile East Germany, West Berlin depends for survival upon its right of free access to West Germany. Last week that right suddenly acquired a price. In a swift move, the regime of Communist Boss Walter Urbricht forced all West German and West Berlin travelers through East Germany to buy transit visas at $2.50 a round trip. After July 1, truckers and bargers will be required to pay new taxes on their cargoes, and after July 15 all West German travelers will be required to carry passports (in the past they needed only identity cards...
Without a Panacea. To relieve the growing strain on the IMF, the Group of Ten, meeting last week in The Hague, agreed to provide that organization with $770 million. Meanwhile, the world money markets continued to show encouraging signs of greater stability, Although the price of gold jumped to a record high in Paris-where the government controls on the export of francs were causing Frenchmen to turn to bullion-free-market trading elsewhere remained relatively calm...
...gear themselves to a relatively small market. Although demand was sufficient to justify manufacturing a number of basic models, it hardly warranted turning out a full line. If a Canadian buyer wanted a Thunderbird, it had to be imported-with a 17½% duty added onto the price...
...tariff barriers came down, so did the price that Canadians had to pay for imported autos. At the same time, because of the proximity of their Canadian plants to key American markets, automakers have been encouraged by the free-trade arrangement to expand their production north of the border. For Canada, the payoff is an expanding auto industry, new assembly jobs for its workers and, as a result of growing auto exports, a decrease in the size of its trade deficit with...