Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been all set to roll back meat prices to June 30 ceilings. As soon as the Price Board approved recontrol, OPA began printing butcher-shop lists for steaks and chops at the old retail levels. It had reckoned without a key point of the new price control...
...abandoned its dream of a complete rollback, and began rewriting the retail price lists which would go into effect Sept. 9. Consumers would probably pay about 6? a pound more for beef, 3? more for pork than they had when ceilings were taken off meat. But the average would be lower (by 25% for beef, 40% for pork) than in last month's free market...
...Last week the U.S. Treasury, which takes revenue from legal and illegal liquor sellers alike, reported that 570 Kansans hold $27.50 Federal Retail Liquor licenses, that 17 more have $110 wholesale licenses...
...increase in production, the delay in shipments. Some of it was probably caused by manufacturers stocking up in anticipation of higher prices. But what the Department of Commerce-and some businessmen-feared was that a sizable chunk was due to a decline in demand because of 1) high retail prices and 2) overproduction of certain items...
Then came word from Washington that OPA needed more time to prepare new price schedules; stockyard ceilings would not take effect until Aug. 29, with slaughterhouse ceilings following on Sept. 1, retail ceilings on Sept. 9. Result: a thunderous stampede to beat the deadline...