Word: comisariato
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work. The whole country is one great market in which all try to make immediate profits: the fruit dealer who gives you ten rotten peaches instead of twelve good ones; the speculator who buys needed products cheap, hoards them, makes them scarce, and sells them at high prices; the Comisariato [Board of Price Administration]-intended to lower prices-which works in league with the speculators. . . . And the prices go up and up, and the poor people suffer for it because they cannot dance to this rhythm...
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