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Show EXONERATED The office of price administration has dismissed suits against eight large chain store companies which last year had Been charged with price violations covering sales of women's wo-men's and children's underwear. This is the termination of, suits brought under maximum price regulation 330 which caused such confusion and injustice by preventing low-cost stores from selling articles at a price based on current cost, while allowing new stores or stores that had no previous established highest price, to sell goods at current costs. The reason for such a ruling was never satisfactorily explained. ex-plained. The expense it caused merchants was incalculable, and the inconvenience it caused to the consuming public can never be estimated. It can be considered one of the penalties of war and the seemingly inescapable regimentation which . war entails. It should be a lesson, however, to encourage v free markets at the earliest possible moment after the emergency emer-gency is over, with a minimum of restrictions. |