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iatkm of Chain Drag Stores. The latter surrey disclosed a 3.1 per cent increase in the fair trade prices of 7,384 drug store articles from 1939 to 1947. In the same period, government figures showed a 93.3 per cent rise in food prices, and 59 per cent in the overall cost of living.
From all the factual evidence adduced from its statistical data, the Bureau notes these conclusions in its suvey: 1. Fair-trade drug products have gone up 10.5 per cent from prewar 1939 to December 1, 1950 in the face of the greatest inflationary pressures in this country in modern times. During the same period non-fair-traded drug products rose 28.7 p$r cent . . . 2. There would be no need whatsoever for government pree controls of any kind in the United States in the immediate future if the price behavior of fair-traded products and particularly of fairtraded drug products. , r
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Farm Development
It Aim of F H A
Developing inadequate family farms through farm improvement loahs will be a major aim of the Farmers Home Administration in 1951, B. F. White,5FHA Supervisor -for Culpeper, Madison and Rappahannock counties said today. ..
Supervised loans enable small owrter-operatofs, unable to get suitable credit elsewhere.to make a wide range of improvements including drainage, land clearing and fencing, basic soil treatments, establishment of permanent seedings, construction of additional buildings for livestock and poultry, repair of homes and farm
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