Word: retails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...catch is that a bushel of potatoes makes only ten pounds of flour. All told, the flour will cost the Government close to $25.60 a hundred pounds. That is five times what it has to pay for wheat flour. Meanwhile, the retail price of potatoes stands at $2.60 a bushel, twice the 1941 price...
...increases in pay and materials (up $80 to $1,160 on a Stylemaster Chevrolet business coupé; up $119 to $1,685 on a Buick Special 4-door sedan). And Chrysler Corp.'s K. T. Keller said that other carmakers would have to start figuring new retail price increases as a result of the steel boost. Said Keller: "When our costs go up, prices have to follow." Automobile men guessed that the price rises would average over...
...congressional subcommittee cornered a group of union labor leaders. It fired the same question at them which had been asked last year of a group of Hollywood writers and producers. The question: "Are you or have you ever been a Communist?" The unionists were from the C.I.O.'s Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which takes in everyone from truck loaders to notions-counter clerks in the country's department stores. The union, with some 150,000 members, is split by a right wing-left wing fight...
Consumer Endurance. It was a tough week all around for consumers. To pay for the new wage gains of John L. Lewis & Co., soft coal mines boosted their prices 4? to 50? a ton (retail equivalent: up to $1.25 a ton). Though hard coal producers had raised prices only a month ago to cover higher wages, one of the biggest of them, Lehigh Navigation Coal Co., Inc., raised the ante again, by as much as $1.10 a ton. A few hours after the rail-wage fight was settled (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the Interstate Commerce Commission gave 61 Eastern railroads permission...
...with a new trick in reducing ore to iron. By using anthracite instead of coke, Brassert can produce pure melting stock at $21 to $26 a ton (current average cost: $40); from the waste gas Brassert will make solid CO² (Dry Ice) at $15 a ton (present retail price: $35 to $65). In a new $1,250,000 iron-ice plant at New York, Brassert hopes to make enough the first year to pay off half the construction cost...