Word: dist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mississippi 12 Dist. of Columbia...
...Dist.-Atty. Gallagher thinks they have not. His figures show that the cost of the ham sandwich in Boston is six cents. Of course it must be remembered that the ham sandwich must bear its share of wages, rent, waste, and other overhead expenses. Yet it does not seem a satisfactory answer to his charges of profits as high as three and four hundred per cent, to say the cost of the sandwich has gone up two or three hundred per cent since 1914. The charge is made with full consideration of today's price level. The answer is beside...