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LIVING IH KEW YORK PRICES SHOOTING SKYWARDS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, December 21. The living and luxury prices which shot skyward with the Wall Street boom have not followed stocks back to earth. The newly-rich include a vast army of speculators, who spend their profits before they get them. They have convinced the half of New York that preys on the other half that there is no ceiling to the price le% r el. Such a plebian dish as lamb stew costs 10s per portion, and two breakfasts of bam and eggs run away with a five-dollar bill. The manager of a Madison” Avenue dining room warns patrons that an order that formerly cost one dollar now costs five dollars. Tailors start at 100 dollars for suits, and other prices are going up rapidly. Apartment rentals grow dearer and dearer as New York grows richer on paper.—United Service.
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Evening Star, Issue 20057, 24 December 1928, Page 5
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