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...large price rises, rather than waiting for complaints as it usually does. Last week Saxbe disclosed that trustbusters are looking for evidence that price fixing is inflating the cost of such foods as beef, milk, bread and especially sugar, which in the past year has rocketed from 140 per Ib. wholesale to a record 460. The Council on Wage and Price Stability also will hold hearings to determine whether sugar refiners are making undue profits. Justice teams are further sifting through data about oil-company price hikes and casting a suspicious eye at price rises in such industries as steel...
...market price of petroleum by the cartel of oil-possessing nations. Higher oil prices meant added costs for the farmer: pesticides, herbicides and nitrogen-based fertilizers are derived from petroleum, while the manufacture of all fertilizer requires much energy. The world price of nitrogen fertilizer jumped from 11? per Ib...
Chicken for 28? per Ib. Five pounds of flour for 48?. Six bottles of soda for 38?. A decade ago? A generation ago? No, this month in Atlanta, where the Richway food stores rolled back prices in the hope of attracting some attention...
...nostalgia, a reminder of times past when a family could afford to eat without thinking about the price. The customers were smiling in Atlanta, something few Americans have done in grocery stores for years. But with the sale over, reality - and inflation - returned. Chicken was going for 54? per Ib., five pounds of flour for 98?, and a six-pack of soda...
Taking Curtin's place at end will be Bob McDermott, a 6-ft. 1-in., 190-Ib. sophomore from Quincy, Mass...