STATE TO MAKE BREAD
Argentine Decision bakers refuse to reduce price BUENOS AIBES, "oet. 29. A Government decrce prohibits the exportation of wheat and dour until xurther notice. The Minister of War simultanepusly ordered all the Arniy's baking equipment to be conbentrated here. Similarly the national peniteutiary's bakeries will.be ready to operate to full capacity to supply bread to the publie. These steps have been takeh as a result of the refusal by 250 of the city's principal bakeries to reduce the price of bread and again to increase the size qf a loaf. Bakeries cjaim the price of flour is e^cessive. A conference of bakers and millers proved futile. The latter, howeyer, are agreeing to supply the Government with flOur under the market price. The distribution of bread has long been a serious social and economie problem, and a strong public demand has persistcd for a national government solution of the problem. The embargo is cxpected to last a month.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 32, 1 November 1937, Page 11
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