WHAT HAPPENED TO PRICES OF HOUSEFURNISHINGS IN 2 WARS (First 52 months both wars)

HOUSE FURNISHINGS CONTRIBUTE 4% TO TOTAL LIVING COSTS.

WHAT HAPPENED TO CLOTHING PRICES IN 2 WARS (First 52 months both wars)

Clothing costs for the most part have been held in check.

But in all fairness the record here is not as good as it looks. Some of the clothing which can be bought today at the same prices as a year or two ago is definitely inferior in quality.

CLOTHING CONTRIBUTES 12% TO LIVING COSTS

WHAT HAPPENED TO FOOD
PRICES IN 2 WARS
(First 52 months both wars)

Control of food prices

in World War II has been subject to the requirement that controls cannot be instituted until prices reach parity. (Foods contribute 40% to total living costs)

NO INCREASE IN AVERAGE RENT SINCE JULY, 1942

Since rent control was adopted

there has been no increase in

rents. Prior to July, 1942 they had increased 3.5 percent.

14,000,000

rented quarters are covered by rent control.

(Rents contribute 18% to total Living Costs)

The cost of living today stands at the same level as in April, 1943

For ten difficult months, with inflationary pressures piling higher and still higher behind the Price Control Dam, we have Held the Line

Wholesale prices are 1⁄2 of one percent below the April, 1943 level

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