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Seven simple rules for wartime price control cited
Frederick B. Jones recalls seven rules issued by the County War Price and Rationing Board’s Advisory Price committee in January 1943. The guidance warns retailers to assume controls apply, avoid raising prices, keep March 1942 price baselines, maintain complete price lists, file cost of living data, and plainly post ceilings at displays, amid wartime shortages and blackouts.
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