Blacketeer Tackles Steep Prices and Coupon Use
A fragment hints at a figure called the Blacketeer fighting high meat prices and coupon schemes, suggesting a battle against black markets and price manipulation impacting shoppers.
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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1944
Page
7
A fragment hints at a figure called the Blacketeer fighting high meat prices and coupon schemes, suggesting a battle against black markets and price manipulation impacting shoppers.
A wartime appeal urges citizens to keep costs down by paying ceiling prices for rationed foods with legal points. The message stresses the aim to boost home health and feed the military and allies while preventing artificial price rises.
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