The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-06
HOUSEWIVES DIG
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price controls were removed. Ba
con was rs cents, three cents
more than last October.
Urges Resistance
Public protests against high
prices prompted New York Mar.
ket Commissiner Eugene c.
Schulz to urge strong consumer
resistance.
Samuel Morganroth, counsel fol
the New York State Association Of
Retail Meat Dealers, said bust
ness in association stores was of
from Is to IS per cent.
1--WE can't charge it all to con.
sumner resistance" he said. "The
same number of customers come
in but they buy less. They just
can't afford it."
Mor<anroth called for govern
ment action to relieve the situa'
ton.
San Francisco housewives were
paying 50 to So cents a pound fol
choice beef roast. Last October
they could buy the same cuts fol
A. to SO cents.
Bacon in San Francisco was &c
to rs cents today, compared with
Al to 50 cents Oct. TO-.
The price of bread had in
creased a few cents in many
cities, a United Press survey
showed, but it was due for a
sharper rise when bakers started
buying the flour which will be
milled from wheat now selling at
record prices in market centers.
New High Marks
September wheat futures bit an
other all-time high on the Chicago
Board of Trade; when buyers paid
81. 1912 a bushel for the grain.
September corn Shot to another
new all-time record Of $2.52-1-2 a
bushel, and oats also made a new
mark, $1.18-3-4.'
Before this summer, when grain
prices started bouncing upward
almost daily, the al-time record
for September wheat was $2.46,
set in 1917. Wheat futures still had
a long way to go today, however,
to equal the record of $3.25 set
on May futures in 1917.
Shell egg and butter futures
scared to new all-time highs again
on the Chicago Mercantile Elk
change. October eggs sold for st
cents a dozen, while November
butter brought rs cents a pound
December, January and March
lard went up the two-cent Limit.
Department Of Labor econom'
lists predicted that the price o:
meat would drop six to eight pei
cent in the next four months
when farmers begin liquidatint
their livestock to avoid feeding
the animals high-priced corn ane
other grains. Wholesale sheep ant
lamb prices dropped substantial
ly'' last week, the Labor Depart
ment said.
But housewives were interested
mainly in what was happening t.
their food budgets today.
8O-Cent ROasts
At Omaha, the Neighborhooe
butcher charged 80 cents a poune
for a rolled rib roast such as HI
would have sold II months agt
for "a cents - a jump of 1875 pc,
cent.
Buttered toast was a luxury il
New York city, with butter at 81
cents a pound. A year ago it only
cost SO cents.
A quart OF milk cost 10 cents il
some Washington, DC, stores
and 20 cents in others. Last veal
it cost only II cents.
At Denver, chuck beef sold fol
IS cents a pound, 80 cents higher
than last year.
A city-by-city survey showed the
following picture Of food prices.
New York-Prime ribs of beef
IT cents a pound, compared with
so cents a year ago and 81 cent:
last October. Bacon rs cents 1
pound, IA cents higher than
year ago, three cents above las
October. Butter 81 cents q pound
compared with 50 cents last Sep
TENDER, IS cents last October
Milk two cents higher than a yea1
ago at 81 cents a quart. Breac
up two cents, to Is cents a loa-
Atlanta-Roast beef up 10 cent!
since last year to SO cents
pound. Bacon up q cents to z
cents. Butter 80 cents, II cent
higher than last September.
Denver-Chuck beef IS cents, 3:
cents over last September. baco1
81 cents, up 20 cents. Butter ul
five cents to SO cents. Milk ane
bread both up o%ne-cent.
Butter Soaring
Detroit-Beef SO cents, 10 cent;
more than last year. Bacon q
cents more OR 81 cents a pound
Butter II cents, compared to IS
a year ago. Milk up one cent q
quart.
San Francisco - Beef So cents
an increase of 13 cents. Bacor
up SO cents to rs cents. Bread
up two cents.
Washington, D.C.-Beef up from
50 cents last year to SO cents
Bacon rs cents instead Of 81. But
ter up 10 cents to 80 cents. Mill
had jumped as much as three
cents a quart. Bread cost two
cents more.
Omaha-Pot roast up from 81
cents a pound to So cents. ROLLED
rib roast 80 cents a pound com
pared to 81 last year. Bacon 81
to 88 cents a pound, instead OF 43
Butter ranged between 81 cents
and 81 cents, compared to IS {
year ago. Brad Is cents a loaf
up four cents. Milk up two-cent.
a quart to 10 cents.
Chicago - Butter prices ranged
from 70 to 81 cents. A year age
it was "a cents. Milk prices have
been boosted by one-cent twice
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