Word: pricing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down to 4.1%, from 7% at the beginning of the upsurge, but it has risen in the past year. On Wall Street, the stock market took a toboggan ride last week, with the Dow-Jones industrial average plummeting 31.56 points to a five-month low of 856.62. Though price increases had been held to 1.3% a year for nearly five years, they have averaged more than 3% for the past two years and inflation is once more a real threat. If, as seems probable, the 7% settlement at Ford sets a pattern for other industries, that threat will be heightened...
...Kennedy's inaugural address was squarely in the old spine-tingling tradition. "Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country." And more: "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." There was an affirmation in the best spirit of patriotic oratory, and it forced the blood up into the temples of people who never really expected to feel that...
...such countries as East Germany and Hungary, Communist regimes are maintained only by the presence of Russian soldiers or the vigilance of local troops and state police. Many new or underdeveloped nations feel that, whatever lures it may possess, Communism comes with too high a price tag of coercion and terror...
...Small Price. So far, the debate has been largely one-sided, since the scientists and technicians engaged in secret research have been unable to ex plain what they do. But professors in a position to speak out argue that much of the advanced work in their fields-whether they like it or not-is related to defense programs. Stanford Electronics Laboratories Director William...
...able to handle the mammoth tankers that are becoming a key to the industry's survival. Two Esso tankers, 240,000 tons each, bigger than any ship ever built in Britain, will go up in their yards. Belfast's Harland & Wolff will build two more, at a price of $73 million for the four...