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Show MORE EXPENSIVE SPRING SUITS IN SIGHT. Retail clothiers, in accounting for the prevailing high prices of mens' clothing, at a hearing before the commission com-mission on necessaries of life, in Boston, Mass., said that spring suite would cost even more. . Federal - excess profits taxes, passed pas-sed along by each handler of the goods, were said to be largely res ponsible for the increased prices, with advancing costs.'-;'- The representative of a wholesale and retail clothing house told the commission that increasing costs would compel the company to charge at wholesale $36 for suits now selling sell-ing at $27 and $28. 0 . |