Word: priced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm program was in the fire. The Department of Agriculture, set to administering a law it didn't like, had ordered potato acreage cut-but growers had simply moved their potato rows closer together, poured on the fertilizer and grown more spuds per acre. By pegging potato support prices high (currently at a top of $1.80 to $2.40 a hundredweight), the U.S. Government was stuck with 50 million bushels of potatoes it could neither sell without undercutting its pegged price nor give away...
...days when the boxes' chief attraction was a small coupon for silver-plated spoons with one's initials on them; the cereal companies now are attacking from all sides of the container at once. For instance, a single box of Kellogg's Pep offers, for box top and a price, a two-tone beanie, a magno-power '50 Ford ("oh boy--eye-popping thrills"), and a Donald Duck ring which rolls its eyes and opens its mouth when you apply the secret magnetic control (in the form of a miniature Pep box.) And inside amidst the Pep there...
...pound of meat cost 3.5 marks, a pack of cigarettes 2 marks, an overcoat 200 marks. The fact that he and other workers could not buy at high prices has gradually halted the trade spurt created in 1947 when Western Germany's Economic Director Ludwig Erhard removed many governmental price-fixing and other controls. Erhard, however, did not remove private controls exercised by more than 2,000 German trade associations. The associations have kept prices high to get all the profits they can. The associations tell the shopkeeper how much to charge. If he disobeys, the association...
...train, by bus, by bicycle and by thumb, more than 2,000 trollops came to Celle. The girls increased the shortage of space until the staid people of Celle, swept along on the tide of vice and opportunism, began renting rooms for the night only. The price depended on the G.I.s' alcoholic state-it was usually 20 marks ($5), but in at least one case it was as high as 250. Some mothers even sent their children into the streets to lure the G.I.s home: "Nice warm Stube with big bed, Joe." Among themselves, the burghers began to call...
...area. U.S. oilmen thought that too small a concession. To them, it still looked as if the British were trying to force the U.S. to make the world's oil market into one vast, noncompetitive cartel. If so, the only effective U.S. answer might ultimately be a global price war, waged to bring the British to terms...