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With that offhand explanation, Mike Di Salle last week issued Ceiling Price Regulation 7, a new step in the fight to stabilize sky-high prices. The order wiped out the general price freeze for about 200,000 retail items and substituted instead a system exhumed from the tomb of World War II's OPA. The new plan, "retail margin control," specifies that dollars & cents price margins may be no greater than those prevailing Feb. 24. The plan applies to clothing, shoes, furniture, rugs, bedding-in short, about 75% of the things department stores sell-and affects some...
Fancy Cuts, No Buyers. But cheerful Mike Di Salle could offer little encouragement about the mounting cost of food. Meat had become a particularly burning problem. Packers looked back to isolated examples of high-priced sales, used them as an excuse for getting around the Jan. 25 price freeze. Meat packers complained that they were caught between high prices for livestock (which are not controlled) and the control ceilings under which they must sell processed meat. Di Salle promised to put his enforcement staff to work on the chiseling packers, and one OPS official hopefully guessed that...
Varsity basketball captain Ed Smith was given honorable mention for Collier's magazine's District All American team. On the first quintet from District 1--New England--were Jim Dilling and Earl Markey of Holy Cross and John Silk of Boston College. Princeton captain Mike Kearns gained honorable mention on the Mid-Atlantic squad, which listed no players from Greater New York...
Princeton's varsity basketball team Monday reprimanded its home fans for "booing opposing players...and tossing papers and other missiles on the court." In a letter to the daily "Princetonian" Tiger Captain Mike Kearns wrote "we (the team) feel the fans have been carried away by their enthusiasm...
...some of the trimmings will be eliminated-and prices higher. Automen think that they will be permitted to thaw their frozen prices about 5% when Price Stabilizer Mike DiSalle brings out his new "profit margin" formula...