Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their offices and a Chicago photocopy company worked overtime copying posters and exhibits, Luckman retired with reports to bone up on the problem of food. The problem was gigantic but simple. To save Europe, the U.S. had to ship 570,000,000 bushels of grain abroad. At the present rate of domestic consumption only 470,000,000 bushels would be available. The U.S. people had to save 100,000,000 bushels...
...fact that the total Government expenditures for the year 1947, at the present rate of exchange, will amount to approximately $1 billion U.S. It is a fact that all the trillions of Chinese Government currency outstanding could theoretically be bought, at the present rate of exchange, for only $250 million...
...most astonishing facts to be found in China today are not in the realms of war or politics but in finance. Chinese Government expenditures, when translated into U.S. dollars at the prevailing rate of exchange, are on a Lilliputian scale. To govern the 450 million Chinese in a territory one-third larger than the U.S. and to carry all the expenses of the war, the Chinese Government now spends approximately the same sum annually as the municipal government of New York City...
...looks as though the struggle goes on for at least another half-year. In the opposing lineups the Theatre Workshop seems to rate the edge for a power struggle. The Veterans outnumber the HDC in total active membership and particularly in the number of stellar performers they seem able to attract. They also seem to have a consistent monopoly on ambition, with their tackling of the scenic and casting problems of "Joan" and "Henry" as opposed to the Dramatic Club's sketchy "Lefty" and proposed bare-stage production of "Enemy of the People." On the other side of the line...
American Airlines' Board Chairman C. R. Smith pointed out that Slick himself had started the rate war-and thus had driven many another independent to the wall (Slick's biggest competitor, California Eastern Airways, Inc. was ready to seek a merger with Slick). Slick had cut his rates to 12¾? in August. The scheduled airlines, getting big new planes, were able for the first time to meet this cut by shifting their displaced DC-4s to air freight. (American alone was transferring six DC-4s.) The independents' best hope was that CAB would disallow...