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Show GUESS THE ANSWER WIN A SHIRT ! A single large shirt manufacturer has 420,000 shii-ts on hand; one big retail store has none. This was the gist of a recent newspaper headline. The story went on to tell how millions of men's shirts lie idle in manufacturers' manufac-turers' storerooms, while retailers' shelves are bare and civilian demand grows more desperate every day. The manufacturers want to sell the.se shirts, but a tangle in the price rules makes it impossible for them to do so. One store official remarked, "It is not so much that prices are inadequate . as that the manufacturers can't find out what prices they can charge." An example of what makes confusion was - the fallowing OPA "revised" rule designed to help manufacturers who piled up too many high-priced items and couldn't sell them without violating regulations. 'This', provision provided that the manufacturer might get his average price back in line "by selling every item in his line at or below his average price until the surcharge is madQ up. "As an alternative, he may make up his surcharge on the instalment basis. Under this plan, the manufacturer will reduce his M. A. P. each month by a set percentage, which is the percentage of his. Bet surcharge to his total net dollar volume of deliveries fpr a preceding period. He keeps the average aver-age price of his deliveries each month at this reduced maximum average price until his surcharge is worked off." If you figure this out you can get a shirt if you can explain it to the shirt, manufacturers. manu-facturers. Industrial News Review. |