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Housing authorities turned over two houses for 15 quarantined families. Milk bottles delivered at the doors of contact houses were collected and destroyed. Ration books handled by a local grocer who caught the disease were called in and burned. Portions of his stock that could not be disinfected were destroyed. Some 80,000 residents of Brighton and environs flocked, with urging, to be vaccinated...
...customers groused and paid-or as a Seattle grocer put it, they were grumbling to the clerks but not yet to the managers. And, at week's end, there was little hoarding. Just as a good many businessmen put up their prices in anticipation of a price freeze, so a good many householders (who had also been through it all before) seemed to be holding back, when they could, in a vague hope that prices might level off soon anyway...
Since then, A & P says that it has abolished Acco's double role. It has also leaned so far backward to avoid selling below cost that even its fiercest rivals now concede that they can frequently undersell A & P. In New Orleans last week, Independent Grocer John Schwegmann, who runs a thriving supermarket, said: "I started on a shoestring right down the street from the A & P supermarket and I have done all right. I consider them the fairest competition I have...
Says Mr. John: "I don't know any grocer or anybody else who wants to stay small. They all dream about building something bigger. The whole country's growing-our cities, schools, labor unions, everything. I don't see how any businessman can limit his growth and stay healthy...
...find hilarity in the idea of a grandmother falling in love. When Spring Byington moves in with her son's family, she snaps at the maid (Connie Gilchrist), interferes with daughter-in-law Ruth Hussey's raising of the children, and quarrels about food prices with Grocer Edmund Gwenn. Appealed to by her son (Ronald Reagan), she sets out to make amends and, from her apology to Widower Gwenn, a romance blossoms. Her son's employer, Bachelor Charles Coburn, promptly appears as a blustering rival for her affections. All this foolishness allows a lot of tiresome variations...