Word: groceryman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least part of the blame on the housewife. After all, Freeman notes, she insists on buying such processed meals as TV dinners, when the same ingredients would cost her one-third as much if she were willing to cook for herself. The housewife tends to castigate the retail groceryman. Says New York City Markets Commissioner Samuel J. Kearing Jr.: "When the housewife finds that she has to pay 2? more for bread, her immediate reaction is that the store owner must be making more. That's unfair." Grocers agree: they in their turn point a finger...