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Show 110 SHORTAGES FOUND BY PRICE RISERS Government officials searching for shortages of consumer goods as an excuse to extend price and wage controls, will have a hard time finding any, according to R. L. Irvine, vice president, Utah Lumber company, Salt Lake City. He said a survey just released by the National Association of Manufacturers shows the outlook for consumer goods supplies as much brighter today than a year ago. "The record against economic controls is overwhelming" Mr. Irvine Ir-vine said, quoting NAM President William J. Grede's recent testimony testi-mony before the house banking and currency committee that "only harm to our economy and thus to our mobilization effort can come from the continuation of price, wage and civilian material i controls. They impede production, impair incentives and increase costs both for industry and government, gov-ernment, and they require tons of useless red tape. They lead to demands for ever more controls to attempt to shore up the inevitable inevi-table failures of existing controls." In spite of dire predictions by government spokesmen that addi. tional control powers would be needed to hold down inflationary pressures caused by shortages of goods, Mr. Irvine added, the shortages short-ages did not appear and a relative stability of prices was actually achieved. |