PRICES OF DRAPERY
STEEP RISE DENOUNCED LONDON PROFITEERING (Reed. Seot. 20, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 19. Typifying the widespread effort to stamp out profiteering a meeting of the Drapers Chamber of Commerce strongly denounced profiteering and agreed there was no justification for an increase in prices of drapery above 5 per cent. It was stated that wholesalers and retailers were exacting rises of 20 to 25 per cent. The Daily Herald says that the meanest type of profiteering is occurring in the air raid precautions goods, including black doth used for darkening windows.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20047, 20 September 1939, Page 5
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93PRICES OF DRAPERY Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20047, 20 September 1939, Page 5
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