SHORTAGES: Let 'em Eat Cheese

Most griping civilian shortage of the week came where, by last year's standards, there is no real scarcity at all. It came in meat, of which the civilian supply is still almost as big as ever. It was a shortage plainly due to price control—a lesson in what price control can lead to in other lines.

> Trouble now is that more people than ever have enough money to buy meat, normally a costly food on which the poor have to go light. Without price control a rise in retail price would have...

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