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Show HIGH PRICES FOR FRESH PORK LOINS I Chicago. Sept 7 Fresh pork loins : wero quoted by packers yesterday at I 18 cents a pound, wholesale, which I Is said to be the highest price ever reached In the history of the pork packing Industry In Chicago. Retail prices rnnged from 24 to 25 cent a pound, also establishing new high rec-I rec-I ords. : Despite tho high prices, managers ! of the packers' branch houses, asserted assert-ed that they could not get all the pork loins they needed to meet the retirements retire-ments of consumers. At 18 cenU n 1'Ound, freh pork loins arc two centi higher than they were on March 28, when live hogs sold on the Chlca?i market at $11.20. which was $1.10 a hundred pounds 'higher than yesterday. yester-day. This disparity In prices wa3 explained by r wholesale butcher who said that the scarcity of light hogj, lather than their Intrinsic value, was responsible for the recent big jumps aaade by prices of loins. |