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Show Consumer Prospects For Footwear Consumers will be given an opportunity op-portunity to buy men's and women's wom-en's "odd lot" shoes ration-free & at markdown prices when a small percentage of shoes in these categories cate-gories is released to the public during dur-ing the threel-week period July 9 through July 28, OPA announced. "Odd lot" shoes must be sold to consumers at prices at least 25 percent per-cent below the prices at which they were offered for sale on June 1, 1945, OPA said. Women's shoes with heel heights of one inch or less may not be included in the release re-lease as these shoes are usually the type worn by growing girls and do not accumulate on dealers shelves as odd lots. Dealers are requested to limit the sales of "odd lot" shoes to no more than a pair to each customer . . . The first complete inventory of the Nation's stocks of both rationed and non- rationed shoes will be taken by shoe dealers deal-ers on July 31, 1945, OPA also announced. an-nounced. This is to determine how many pairs of shoes can be allotted allott-ed to consumers and whether any shoes can be released from rationing. ration-ing. Ceiling prices have been given for all sales in civilian channels of eighteen rubber footwear items re-jeted re-jeted by the Armed Forces as not , up to required standards. The ceilings, ceil-ings, effective June 18, 1945, apply to men's and women's rubber boots, overshoes or arctics, rubbers, flying fly-ing boots, jungle boots, tennis and gym shoes ... A retail price ceiling ceil-ing of forty cents a pair for men's black rubber half soles, also rejected re-jected by the Army, will become effective June 26, 1945. This ceiling ceil-ing applies to sales by chain, hardware hard-ware and other retail stores |