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Show HARD TO BELIEVE Nine Firms Announce Price Cuts In these days when the public seems to be fair game for all kinds of price boosts, it's hard to believe that nine companies announced price cuts. The cuts were on bag-packed bag-packed coffee, airplane parts and asphalt tile. The A & P company and Grand Union company, retail grocery chains, announced reductions on the price of their various brands of bag coffee by two cents a pound. Boeing Airplane of Seattle announced an-nounced it was reducing by 10 per cent the price on all stratocruiser spare parts. The cut was retroactive to September 1. Armstrong Cork company put price reductions of about 5 per cent in effect on standard asphalt tile. Coffee prices had been on the upswing up-swing for many months. |