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Show PRICE CONTIIOL PROGRAM BECOMES EFFECTIVE MAY 18 The government wartime price control program was imposed on wholesalers and manufacturers Monday, and on Monday, May 18, the program will be extended to include in-clude all retail stoics In the country. coun-try. Services, such as charges by laundries, shoe repair shops, garages, gar-ages, etc., will come under the price , regulation after July 1st. The regulations, established as a means of protecting the consumer from skyrocketing costs of living, provide that wholesalers and retailers retail-ers cannot charge more for their products than the highest price charged for the Item during March of this year. A long list of iu;ms are covered by the price control program, practically prac-tically all items generally used by the average American citizen, which means that the cost of living cannot can-not go higher than lt was in March. |