Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be the advertising agencies; except for "Bostitch-staples-are-winning-the-war" ads, brand-name publicity will vanish for the duration. Retailers may feel a distinctly uncomfortable pinch as special discounts for pushing one particular brand are made useless by the disappearance of the conditions which gave rise to them. So far, these groups have not protested loudly. That, however, is not a guarantee of a continued silence when the pressure begins to bear down harder...
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...Trouble now is that more people than ever have enough money to buy meat, normally a costly food on which the poor have to go light. Without price control a rise in retail price would have taken the edge off the demand at the same time that it stimulated the supply. With price control the demand kept soaring, but further production increases were inhibited. Some form of rationing became a cinch to prophesy...
...spoken Kenneth Galbraith, Henderson's price man, says he has not worked out the actual formula. The idea is to narrow margins a trifle, but still allow wholesalers and retailers enough leeway to stay in business after meeting the increase in replacement costs since March. Some prices will rise sharply, others will remain unchanged. OPA estimated that the new formula would not up over-all food bills more than...
When compared with previous weeks when stamps and bonds have been on sale only once a week, the totals for the drive indicate only a rise of $100. The total number of students pledged and the amounts promised, as compared to drives in other colleges, show that where Harvard pledged hundreds, other colleges pledged thousands...