Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government purchasing program to absorb high farm prices without letting retail ceilings rise on important cost-of-living items. For instance, this could be done if the Government bought up cattle at going market prices, resold to packers at a figure low enough to give the packers modest profits at current beef ceilings. In effect, the Government will buy up all cattle and sell them at a loss, with the taxpayer ponying up enough money to keep producers and processors in business...
...More black-market meat (as packers refused to buy cattle at the cattlemen's price, black-market dealers snapped it up; the rise in beef points broadened their retail market...
...Peace. Rumors of a fairly quick end to the war have prodded the boom. Last winter, the peace stocks (soft drinks, baking, retail trade, gold mining) lagged behind the striding war stocks (railroads, airplanes, steel, shipbuilding). But with spring-and victory in North Africa-war stocks stood still, peace stocks forged ahead. The peace boom seemed premature; peace and war stocks were reaching an unhealthy unbalance...
...Hoover called for consolidation of food production and distribution under one administrator; abolition of parities, of retail and wholesale price ceilings (his answer: fix prices close to the farm); an increase in farm manpower by ordering drafted farmers back to the land-"with their uniforms," when needed...
Many thousands had enormous difficulty in getting to work. Bus schedules had been slashed way down. Retail deliveries were cut, from 10 to 100%; laundries, milk and other services were cut to a minimum. The people were ruled by ODT, checked up on by OPA and explained to by OWI. But the main thing...