Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manufacturers blamed the rise on "a cost-price squeeze." Thus, they pointed out that between May and August hide and skin prices advanced 38 points on the Bureau of Labor Statistics wholesale index while shoe prices advanced less than 3 points. (But hide prices were still under the peak of last November while shoes were well up from then.) Said Lawrence B. Sheppard, president of the National Shoe Manufacturers Association: "In the shoe industry, replacement pricing [i.e., raising the price of previously manufactured shoes to cover replacement cost] must be substituted for wishful thinking...
...financial estimate has hit $2,500,000, with a $1,500,000 figure from Shepley Wednesday and an endowment approximation by Lowell the same day of an even million. This is admittedly not a maximum estimate and would have to undergo revision were labor and material costs to suddenly rise. But Axt feels it is a figure which would probably have created a psychological climate more favorable to his cause had it appeared two months...
...reduction led the University to solicit a tremendous amount of "gifts for immediate use." These gifts which hopped from about one million dollars in 1926 to seven million in 1929, tugged Harvard safely through the crash. They were not, however, sufficient to block an average twenty-five percent tuition rise throughout the University...
...York Stock Exchange reported that in the first nine months this year, 805 companies listed on the Big Board paid dividends totaling $2,152,265,000, a rise of 21.5% over the total of dividends paid by the same companies in the same period last year...
Buckling Oil Line. The rise of 20? a barrel in crude oil prices caused Standard Oil Co. of Indiana to boost its wholesale price on supply-pinched oil products by as much as 1½ a gallon. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey still held the price line. But it adopted an allocation plan for its dealers...