Throughout the 1970s the price of rubber in the world commodities market was depressed, putting pressure on Liberian state finances.

Since the bulk of the rubber produced is of the synthetic variety, which is derived from petroleum, the price of natural rubber is determined, to a large extent, by the prevailing global price of crude oil.

Leopold extracted a fortune from the Congo, initially by the collection of ivory, and after a rise in the price of rubber in the 1890s, by forcing the population to collect sap from rubber plants.

During a celebration after the trial, when Robert announces that he plans to draw his savings out of his account in order to buy a rubber plantation in Sumatra, Howard and Leslie are forced to tell him that his savings are gone, that the impact of the letter would have hanged Leslie and its price was accordingly high.

Congolese communities in the Domaine Privé were not merely forbidden by law to sell items to anyone but the State: they were required to provide State officials with set quotas of rubber and ivory at a fixed, government-mandated price and to provide food to the local post.

The peak year was 1903, with rubber fetching the highest price and concessionary companies raking in the highest profits.

Neoprene waders are usually about 5 mm thick, and in the medium price range as compared to cheaper materials such as nylon and rubber.

Due to an increase in the price of sulfuric acid, which was needed for the process then used for reclaiming old rubber, the United States Rubber Co. formed the Naugatuck Chemical Company on June 1, 1904, and the company soon was in the forefront of the chemical industry in the United States.

Throughout the seventies, the world price of rubber was depressed, putting pressure on the Liberian economy.

He sold natural rubber erasers for the high price of three shillings per half-inch cube.

Although the trees planted by the Firestone Company in 1926 and 1927 were now reaching tapping age, the market price of rubber would only cover a small fraction of the cost of tapping, processing and transportation to market.

A world-wide shortage of rubber, a vital military supply, creates a shortage and huge price increase in golf balls.

* 1930s-The market was dominated by the rubber share price movements.

By 1925 the price of natural rubber had increased to the point that many companies were exploring methods of producing synthetic rubber to compete with natural rubber.

Within a few years, faced by stiff competition from the manufacturers of oilcloth, plus huge increases in the price of India rubber, Kamptulicon faded away.

The economic well-being of the population invariably fluctuated in tandem with the price of rubber.

His career as industrialist peaked in the 1950s when his company reaped huge profits from the rising rubber price.

Dilbeck's main function in Washington, D. C. is to rubber stamp lucrative price supports for Florida's sugar cane farming industry.

The price rose to £ 1. 25 per issue.

However, when the price of silver rose, the East India Company began to manufacture a product that was desired by the Chinese as much as tea was by the British: opium.

In 1483, the price of bowstaves rose from two to eight pounds per hundred, and in 1510 the Venetians obtained sixteen pounds per hundred.

In 1907, the cover price rose to 15 cents and 30 pages were added to each issue ; along with establishing a stable of authors for each magazine, this change proved successful and circulation began to approach that of Argosy.

In 1980, the silver price rose to a peak for modern times of US $ 49. 45 per troy ounce ( ozt ) due to market manipulation of Nelson Bunker Hunt and Herbert Hunt.

The market price of vanilla rose dramatically in the late 1970s after a tropical cyclone ravaged key croplands.

But inflation adjusted nominal GDP rose only 42 %, according to IMF constant price growth rates.

During 2003, the price rose above $ 30, reached $ 60 by August 11, 2005, and peaked at $ 147. 30 in July 2008.

The price of food rose sharply during epidemic years, then began to fall very rapidly as there were fewer mouths to feed.

EDS went public in 1968 and the stock price rose from $ 16 a share to $ 160 within days.

1 would reduce quantity demanded of a good smoothly as price rose relatively for that good.

During Chevron's absence, its split-adjusted price per share went from forty-four dollars to eighty-five, while the price of petroleum rose from twenty-four dollars to a hundred.

Although price rises had also been high under Frei ( 27 % a year between 1967 and 1970 ), a basic basket of consumer goods rose by 120 % from 190 to 421 escudos in one month alone, August 1972.

Company stock rose greatly in value as it expanded its operations dealing in government debt, peaking in 1720 before collapsing to little above its original flotation price.

The more the price rose in advance of conversion, the more the company would make.

The price of that staple food, oats, for example, rose from 12 ¢ a bushel ($ 0 / m³ ) in 1815, equal to $ in today's purchasing power to 92 ¢ a bushel ($/ m³ ) in 1816, equal to $ today.

Each time the stock rose, sellers would enter the market and sell the stock ; hence the " zig-zag " movement in the price.

After the initial settlers cleared the shrubbery and planted wheat, the land was found to be quite fertile and the price of the land rose dramatically to $ 5. 00 per acre and by the 1890s the land was selling for as much as $ 100. 00 an acre.

In 2004 the average home price in Bingley rose 30 % to £ 196, 850-the second fastest appreciating area in the U. K ( After the nearby Hebden Bridge ).

At first the Lucayans sold for no more than four gold pesos in Hispaniola, but when it was realized that the Lucayans were practiced at diving for conchs, the price rose to 100 to 150 gold pesos and the Lucayans were sent to the Isle of Cubagua as pearl divers.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, this price gradually changed to 20 ¢, and again rose to 25 ¢ in some areas between 1985 and 1990 ( 47 ¢- 39 ¢, inflation adjusted terms as above ).

In the late 1990s, the price rose to 35 ¢ in many areas.

The average price per acre of land sold in Kirtland rose from approximately $ 7 in 1832 to $ 44 in 1837, only to fall back to $ 17. 50 in 1839.

The entrance fee, i. e. the purchase price of a share, was in early days usually a guinea, but rose sharply as the century advanced, often reaching four or five guineas during the French wars ; the annual subscription, during the same period, rose from about six shillings to ten shillings or more.