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...wheat. There was even optimistic talk that, with good crops in Canada, France and other countries, the demand for food would ease and grain prices would come down. Meanwhile, the retail prices of everything made of grain, bread, syrups, etc. were bound to go up to match the sky-high wholesale prices...
...surface, the U.S. people's first reaction to the sudden end of price controls was violent. Headlines told of prices of meat, milk, butter and bread shooting up. Like fat in a fire, accounts of sky-high rent boosts sputtered noisily in the news. In the first day or two it seemed to many that the nation had caught panic at the notion of being on its economic own, and free of Government price controls...
...live for years on 7 oz. of fat (including all butter, margarine & lard) and less than 1 Ib. of meat a week. ... It is even true that over a period of years our diet is inadequate to maintain proper fitness and resistance to disease. Add to this fuel rationing, sky-high prices and acute housing shortage, and you will appreciate that for a victorious (sic) nation our position is not pleasant...
Early in 1942, the Army fitted some of its coastal minefields with underwater microphones. Its purpose: to listen for enemy craft, and blow them sky-high by exploding appropriate mines. For a while the minefields were quiet. Then, with spring, the microphones under an empty sea picked up an "awful racket." To some it sounded like a pneumatic drill, to others like laden freighters coming up the channel...
...else was just as greedily snapped up. The advertising manager of one store grumbled: "We can't keep stuff long enough to work up an ad." Customers even waited patiently in stores for goods to come in. Easter outfits were at a premium from coast to coast, with sky-high prices no deterrent...