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Show Indifference Is Blamed For Black Market "Public indifference" is blamed for growing black markets, and George Moncharsh, enforcement chief for OPA, reports a "terrific loss of the patriotic motive" which makes enforcement of price ceilings ceil-ings increasingly difficult. Mr. Moncharsh says that his force of 3,000 agents and lawyers investigated 193,000 possible violations vio-lations in 1945, confirmed violations viola-tions by 160,000 persons and won twenty-five per cent of 59,000 proceedings pro-ceedings in court, t Effective control of black maf- kets, in his opinion, would require i double the present force because "new powers" have entered into the black market and the enforcement enforce-ment problem is complicated by the "delaying tactics" of lawyers representing those brought into court. I |