Fair Price List Sets Profit Caps On Essential Food Goods
The Fair Price Commission acting under the Lever Act and with Department of Justice guidance issues maximum profit margins for key food items. Wheat bread may add 11.5 percent per loaf, flours and cereals up to 12 to 17.5 percent, corn meal 12 to 25 percent depending on packaging. Dealers may sell for less than these limits. The list reflects cooperation with merchants amid high living costs and wartime conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fair Price Commission
Department of Justice
Washington
Food Administration
Commission
Fair Price Committee
Acreage Auction Highlights Tract No 2 Near Lemon's Mill Pike
Tract No 2 offers about 78 acres fronting Lemon's Mill Pike and adjoining Tract No 1. It is unimproved with 25 acres recently broken, 30 acres in wheat, balance in North Elkhorn bottom land, high cultivation, never tobacco. Terms liberal, announced day of sale. Free burgoo noon. Also auction at same time for Thos. D. Morgan: household goods, kitchen range, sheep, draft horses, farming implements, 100 barrels corn, seed corn, Mr. Morgan of Farm No. 1 available to show property.
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Thos. D. Morgan
Scott County
Lemon’s Mill
Hickman
North Elkhorn
Lemon’s Mill Pike
Lexington
Thos
D. Morgan
John Deere
Tiger Tobacco
Randall
Moyer
United States
Fair Price Rules Set By Kentucky Commissioner
The document outlines base costs for grocery items with specific percentage markups to determine the highest retail price without prosecution. P H Callahan, Fair Price Commissioner of Kentucky, specifies how to add freight and other costs to the invoice price to compute allowable profits. The notice appears in The Advocate, published twice weekly.
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United States District Attorney
P. H. Callahan
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Fair Price
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Harkness Estate
Walnut Hall
C. C. Buckley
T. C. Geary
Chas. Conner
Mr. Morgan
C. E. Buckley
Col
Geo. D. Speakes
Moberly Schoolhouse
Paris Pike
Mt. Sterling
Jersey
Poland
China
WM. Cravens
Y. A
FAI
R. R. No
Fair Price Commissioner of
Board of Trade Building
Louisville, Ky
the Advocate
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