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production and prices. Cn the other hand the Office of Price 

 Administration expects to work out numerous refinements and doubtless 

 new ceilings will be worked out for commodities hrving great seasonal 

 variation and those for which the March base is not satisfactory. 



We can now worry less about speculative price changes and in- ' 

 creasing costs and devote our entire energies to production and marketing. 

 There is still considerable leeway for price increases for many farm 

 products that arc now below parity, but an effort will probably be made 

 to hold dovrn the Drice of feed, now that the price ceilings have been 

 placed upon beef, pork, bottled milk and ice cream, 



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