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Coffee prices and clothing spending in postwar outlook
The Coffee Commission warns that shortages and rising labor costs will keep coffee prices high, despite yields. Clothing expenditure varies by income, with higher earners spending more. the average American spends 114 dollars annually. Higher retail prices helped lift the 1952–53 retail total to 171 billion dollars, a four percent rise.
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Coffee Commission
Washington
Henry Bach Associates, Inc
Bernice Fitz- Gibbon
Gimbels
National Retail Dry Goods Association
New York