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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they lunched on rice and salami, the foundry's workmen sent them a note of welcome and a request for a talk. They agreed. Meanwhile, word of their presence had reached the ears of Maria Prampolini Bonfanti, a hatchet-faced, middle-aged Red partisan, known as La Passionaria di Ferrara.* At local party rallies, La Passionaria always gives orders when to clap and when to boo. Now she quickly sent small boys scurrying through Ferrara to round up the party's toughs...
Even Price Stabilizer Michael Di Salle was aware that the drop in buying, rather than controls, has stopped the rise in some prices. Nevertheless, last week he served up another batch of controls, extended his profit margin restrictions (TIME, April 9) to radio and TV sets, houseware, luggage and chinaware...
Congratulations and thanks for your warm and human article on "Uncle" Mike Di Salle, U.S. Price Controller...
Price Stabilizer Michael V. Di Salle unveiled the latest change in his price-control structure last week. He ripped out the dollars & cents price ceilings which he had erected over thousands of food items in his freeze order of Jan. 26. For them he substituted a complex system whereby the Office of Price Stabilization regulates the percentage markups which retail grocers and wholesalers may tack on to the cost of goods. No one, not even tubby Mike Di Salle, is sure how the new order which becomes obligatory on April 30, will affect retail food prices. But Mike is optimistic...
...Mike Di Salle thinks his new rule will give the honest grocer a squarer deal. Before the Jan. 26 order, many sharpshooters boosted their prices skyhigh, were rewarded when the order froze the prices at that level. By freezing markups instead of prices, OPS hopes to give everyone the same fair chance to make a profit. But there is no hope that food prices will be kept down if farm prices continue to rise. The grocer will simply pass any increased costs to the consumer...