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Show CHICAGO OPENS WAR ON RETAIL PRICE OF MEATS CHICAGO. Dec. '.i. Reversal to war methods in fighting high food prices was adopted In Chicago Chi-cago today, when Ruaaell J. Poole. secretary of the fair price committee com-mittee of the clt council, un- ' nounced that "fair price Quotations" Quota-tions" for meats will be issued dally by the council committee. Wholesale prices quoted by packers at the Stockyards will be j made the basis of the "fulr price" schedule, he said. To this will bo I added overhead charges and a fair profit. 'The meat dealers' profits are greater now than at any time dur- j ing the war," said Everett C. Brown, of the Chicago livestock I exchange The meat dealer could I cut prices 10 lo 10 per cent and still make a bigger margin of I nfit than before tlie war." C. H. Krye. a Seattle packer, on his way west from an eastern east-ern visit, said retail meat prices hi the east und middle west are i higher than oil tho Pacific coast Me said meat prices in Europe were 26 to 50 per cent lower than in Chicago. oo |