Word: home
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boom production has been greater than consumption and inventories have piled high. Unless belligerents begin to buy on a big scale, or home consumption picks up, an inventory recession is inevitable. In this delicate situation, the outcome, he estimated, would be determined by whether businessmen encourage buying by holding prices down or discourage buying by boosting prices. He pointed out that although the U. S. is short of neither materials, labor, nor capital, the prices of raw materials have ominously risen 10% since August...
...price of milk is set by the cost of home delivery. If home delivery were eliminated milk could be retailed in stores at 2? to 4? less than at present. Milk at 9? or 10? a quart would be possible, and at this price consumption would increase, much to farmers' profit, for the dairies pay most for milk that is sold in fluid form (i.e., not manufactured into butter, cheese, etc.). FORTUNE explains the conspiracy of circumstances which has prevented this simple solution, has continued to keep the price of fluid milk at uneconomic levels...
...distributors, National Dairy Products and Borden, whose subsidiaries distribute milk in most big cities, find it to their advantage to preserve home milk delivery. Their milk wagon routes give them a relatively closed market, and there is more competition in store sales. Actually the distributors make more money on cheese, butter, etc., so they have no special interest in pushing the sale of bottled milk...
...Milk Wagon Drivers' Union has resisted all attempts to cut grocery store prices below home delivery prices. Reason: drivers want to keep their jobs at good wages (in New York City they average $45 to $50 weekly...
...State control boards (half the States have them), county & city health authorities, a multitude of laws play the same game. In 30 cities out of 129 studied, State law demands that store and home milk prices be identical. Health authorities can and do limit the milk supply by refusing to license and inspect farmers who want to sell in the city...