Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While keeping his regular 95-cent dinners at their former price, the manager of the Oxford Grille explained the 30-cent rise in deluxe dinners as being the amount of lose he had previously been taking, when the items were available. He said that his price range would not allow him to buy steaks through "independent," high-priced meat stores...
Asked if their former ceilings were still on view when they maintained a five-cent rise in hamburgers would have been allowed anyway, Hazen's failed to produce the evidence...
...Wherever a price rise is noted, buying at another store or conscientious refusal to purchase the item at all, if the rise is general, will eventually benefit everyone. Continue to leave your complaints at the CRIMSON...
TRANSLATING LOCAL RISES TO THE NATIONAL SCENE, the Department of Labor's Bureau of Statistics has figured that prices of 28 basic commodities have ascended by 33 per cent since V-J Day, of which rise 23 per cent has occurred since the beginning of this month...
Most traders claimed that the grain and meat prices, despite their upswing, were still below black market prices under OPA. Actually, the rise was caused, to some extent, by the elimination of subsidies, i.e., the consumer was simply paying the bill in another form...