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In Philadelphia, the price of beef has exploded-up 114 percent in only three months, from ?3 10 shillings to ?7 10 shillings in Pennsylvania currency per barrel. New Yorkers are buying refined sugar at exactly double the cost of three months ago (1 shilling 3 pence, v. 2 shillings...
Advertising is a world halfway be tween Disney and Dante. White Knights gallop through suburbia, housewives are absolved for ring around the collar, and stars and cowboys blissfully pull on their weeds, oblivious to the Surgeon Gener al's little memento mori in the corner -"dangerous to your health...
Is a big bull market in the making? A. Gary Shilling, chief economist of White, Weld & Co., notes that "historically, whenever we've had a major recession- like in 1921, 1937 and 1958 -we've never had a genuine new bull market until all the bad news is...
How great this "ripple effect" might be is anybody's guess; sluggish demand will certainly restrain some price increases. But some of the guesses are frightening. Senator Stevenson figures that the energy program could eventually raise living costs for the average family by $1,000 a year, or four times...
THE BEGGAR'S OPERA is as immediately biting as they come. Originally produced in 1728, in a London where starving people were hanged for stealing a shilling's worth of property, it tells about a gang of thieves, fences and jailers supposedly much like the high officials who surrounded Horace...