Word: hundredweight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...food (and rents) the boosts were big and fast. It was meat that gave the spectacular example of supply & demand. In the first day of free trade at the Chicago stockyards, prime beef jumped to $22 a hundredweight (OPA ceiling: $18), hogs were up to $18.50 (ceiling: $14.85). Then the farmers, hurrying to cash in on the high prices, began to pour in cattle by the thousand. One day alone brought in 20,000 hogs, greatest number in six months...