Word: laggingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actually be higher, as Government figures usually lag behind day-to-day living costs.) If she does, she would be doing a great deal better than the U.S. But with Canada's economy geared as closely as it is to the U.S., chances were that the Canadian price line would take plenty of holding-if the U.S. index continued to rise...
Election regulations specify that each party or organization can put up its own candidate list only in communities where it has a local organization. The favored SED has been able to establish organizations in most communities. The other two parties lag far behind. The SED people have little difficulty getting automobiles and gasoline. Other parties are largely immobile. In Saxony, the SED was recently allotted 30,000 liters of gasoline, the LDP 100 liters...
...away at Portugal. Financial Wizard Salazar has not balanced the budgets of Portuguese families. Food prices have nearly doubled since 1939. One typical family with a monthly income of 1,200 escudos in May paid out 1,663 escudos for rent, food, clothing, water and light. Strictly controlled wages lag far behind. Government workers, especially important to a dictatorship, got a 25% increase in 1944 to meet a 112% rise in the retail price index...
...thing that may keep down inflation in Canada is not so much her new rules as the old fact that her price movements now lag behind those of the U.S. Thus, the inflationary pressures may not reach their peak in Canada until U.S. production is high enough to put a rein on prices...
Most important, the abnormal demand for food, clothing and other consumer goods has been partially filled. The return to normal demand should put a crimp in prices. In any case, the spiral of wages & costs cannot rise indefinitely, as long as production is increasing. The fact that wages usually lag behind rising prices will bring acute hardship to many. But it will put an ultimate ceiling on prices. As purchasing power drops, prices will have to come down also...