Word: montorgueil
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...meat prices by 10%, and they quickly complied. Then came similar reductions for coffee, rice, flour, margarine and soap; others were scheduled for shoes, textiles, kitchenware, furniture, bicycles. To celebrate la baisse (the lowering), shopkeepers in central Paris hung a banner reading "Rue de la Baisse" across the Rue Montorgueil, and merchants and manufacturers with high inventories cheered. But plain people rubbed their chins and doubted that it would last any longer than other baisses decreed by some of Laniel's predecessors...
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