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food, housing and especially in their supply of war ihaterials to defend 

 themselves and win the war. 



We can expect, therefore, the continued depletion of manufactured 

 goods available to consumers, an acceleration of our output of war materi- 

 als, but not a very great increase in the total output of all manufactured 

 goods. Any further rises in incomes will be the result, ' in large psirt, 

 of wage increases rather than Of increased employment. There will con- 

 tinue to be an upward pressure on the prices of farm products caused in 

 greater degree by the lack of other ways to spend their money than by the 

 increase in total n on agricultural income. At the present time several 

 farm products are omitted from the list under price ceilings. More and 

 more of them are likely to be brought under control as prices are forced 

 upward by the increase in demand. For example, as the result of a 

 scarcity of beef on the East Coast, price ceilings were placed on lamb 

 and mutton in order to prevent a rapid price rise caused by a shift in 

 demand from beef to lamb. Eggs, poultry, most milk products, plain flo-or, 

 dried prunes, dried beans, nuts and all fresh vegetables and fruits except 

 bananas have no price ceiling. It would not be surprising to see prices 

 of some of these products rise further even in spite of the very large 

 supplies of most of them. 



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