Why were meat prices so high? Last week Joseph Marion Hartkopf, who runs a chainstore meat counter in suburban Woodlawn, Ala., gave his explanation. A married Army veteran with two children, Butcher Hartkopf wrote a letter to the Birmingham News:
"Ladies, I wish you would stop talking about the high prices of meat until you are ready to help bring them down. During the depression you were glad to get the cheaper cuts of meat, but now I can't even sell them.
"You want center cuts of pork chops; you are willing to pay 10 to 15ยข a pound more for them ....
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