Business & Finance: OPS on Guard

The Office of Price Stabilization last week brought the first criminal action on a charge of violating a price ceiling. The defendant: Albert Rontell, Los Angeles used-car salesman. The charge: selling a 1950 Cadillac club coupe for $4,597.90, just $937.65 above OPS's ceiling (and well over Cadillac's list price for a new car).

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