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Show SHRINKAGE OF DOLLAR NOT ALL DUE TO WAR WASHINGTON, Mandi 6. The hiph cost of living in the national capital has not been due entirely to the war. as statistics sta-tistics complied by tho deaprtment of labor today show that the food purehas-in purehas-in power of a dollar has been shrinking for ten years in Washington. A dollar now will buy as much flour as 60 cents would ten years arzo. A dollar's worth of cornmeal could have been bought for 34 cents, and a dollar now is only worth 40 cents In the purchase of eggs. The amount of sirloin steak which a dollar will buy has decreased from 5.2 pounds to 2.7 pounds; pork chops, from 6.3 pounds to 2.6; bacon, sliced, from 5.5 pounds to 2.0 pounds ; ham, sliced, from 4.4 pounds to 2.1 pounds; lard, from 7.3 pounds to 3-Ot! pounds ; hens, from 5-6 i pounds to 2.9 pounds; butter. 2.7 pounds j to 1.7 pounds; milk per quart, 12.6 quarts j to 7.1 quarts; potatoes, from 4.3 pecks to 1.9 pecks; sugar, from IS. 2 pounds to 10.4 pounds. |