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Show Above Ceiling Sales Cost Americans One Billion OPA Administrator Bowles says "We estimate that above ceiling sales cost American families $1,000 000,000 a year. It's made up of the pennies, dimes and dollars shoppers shop-pers paid because they didn't care or couldn't be bothered to complain, com-plain, and that grocers charged because be-cause they had fallen down on the job of price compliance. Food represents rep-resents 40 percent of the average family's budget. That's why we feel that everyone food retailers and their suppliers, consumers and community representatives who serve on Local War Price and Rationing Ra-tioning Boards will want to back the Food Compliance program." Present OPA plans call for a three way drive by grocers, consumers, and OPA to bring about more effective ef-fective price control of all foods sold at retail in the groceries and meat markets of the country. |