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Forgetting the ugly fact of coupons, hats and clothes (with the exception of utility wear) were half again as expensive as pre-Dunkirk. Hats were coupon-free, but in view of the sky-high prices, they might just as well have cost the coupon value of a coat. Last week smart London-designed hats cost from $30, and they were definitely not Paris models. For those, London shoppers willingly paid...
...gist: fix the selling price of the plants on the basis of their actual postwar "use" value, rather than on their sky-high original cost...
...once. But ceilings on scarce durable goods, such as autos and refrigerators, will be needed to hold prices in line until production comes up to demand, perhaps as long as three years after war's end. Ceilings would prevent buying power from being wasted on small production, at sky-high prices...
...have been on a four-year buying spree. Estimating retail sales for 1944, the Department predicted that the quantity of goods bought this year would be only 15% greater than in 1939, and 5% less than in 1941. But the Department's report confirmed what every housewife knows: sky-high retail prices make purchases of essentials seem like a mad squandering of money. Thus the dollar volume of retail sales this year are guesstimated at an alltime peak of $67 billion - up 60% over 1939, and 20% over...
...ability of refiners to outfoot sky-high taxes and rising costs that tripped up many another industry was due to one simple fact: they squeezed out additional capacity with but little additional manpower or equipment. Thus, they increased earnings proportionately with volume. The trend of U.S. industry, on the whole, has been just the opposite...