PRICES: Ceiling for Autos

There will soon be an OPA ceiling on new passenger car prices. That was the upshot of a breezy meeting held this week between OPA's Cyrus McCormick and 81 important auto dealers. But the automen were not worried. The ceiling formulas proposed were satisfactory, and nothing was said about used cars.

Even before the meeting, automobile dealers were a cocky lot. For more than a month they had been dazzled by an unexpected show of Government friendliness. At a series of "informal luncheons" held in a few key cities, OPA had convinced dealers it was on their side in their...

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