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...benefit of the "misguided gentlemen [who] start shouting that a disastrous inflation will result" every time a steel increase is mentioned, Fairless said that the effects of a 10% boost would be "negligible." "It would add less than 4? to the price of a $22 automatic toaster; 60? to the price of a washing machine; $1.50 on an electric refrigerator . . . $17 on your new car; and $37 to the cost of a $10,000 home...
...altogether-any more than the radio, the electric light and the pop-up toaster. Ten years ago, the Nazis accused British flyers of dropping potato bugs on German potato fields...
While most big manufacturers wondered what to do, Proctor Electric Co., whose toaster had been cut from $22.50 to $17.47, announced a full-scale legal assault to plug discount-house breaches. Then it modified its stand, possibly because discount houses sell a great deal of merchandise. It contented itself with sending letters to its major New York retailers, department stores included, requesting a signed pledge to sell only at listed prices...
...said, tamping tobacco into his pipe. 'Right now I wouldn't buy a chickenhouse. I'm put and I'm staying put. I lived through the other depression and saw what happened.' Mrs. Howe said she would like to have an automatic toaster. 'They cost about $22, I guess,' she said. Her husband added: 'I could buy the damn thing tonight but I'm going to wait until the price goes down...
...Vatican, Pope Pius XII received 570 devout Catholic workers, who delivered to him some samples of their handiwork: a motorized bicycle and an electric toaster...