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freight rate. New York City has a great social system * to be 

 maintained, which means high taxes and high operating 

 costs for the middlemen. The difference between the cost of 

 a chicken in Missouri and in New York is the freight rate 

 plus the higher distributive costs in New York. With rising 

 incomes and with ceiling prices, the local consumers can out- 

 bid New York. Hence food shortages are greater in the large 

 urban centers in deficit areas. The large cities have neither 

 a weapon nor a magnet to attract food under relatively rigid 

 ceiling prices unless through the black market. 



Price Rations Goods 



Many people, when they were handed War Ration Books, 

 assumed that this was the first time they had been rationed. 

 Food has always been rationed. Goods never have been and 

 never will be passed around indiscriminately. Under the free 

 economy of the horse-and-buggy days, more commonly 

 known as the capitalistic system, price rationed goods. 



A freely fluctuating price mechanism was the pivotal and 



1 New York City has a huge police force, and the Missouri farmer an 

 old rifle: 



Service 



Police 



Fire department 



Telephone 



Water 

 Light 



Hospitals 



Parks 



Swimming 



Playgrounds 



Labor unions 



Social security 



Transportation 



Schools 

 Total 



New York City 



Huge 



Very large 



Buried in rock 



Hot and cold on tap 



Electricity, house and 



street 

 Many 

 Many 



Expensive pools 

 Many, supervised 

 Many 

 Much 

 Elevated, subway, bus, 



streetcar, and taxi 

 Many, expensive 



Very large 



Western farm 



Old rifles 



Neighbors and buckets 

 Strung on poles 

 Cold at pump 

 Kerosene, house 



None 



None 



Creek 



Pasture lot 



None 



None 



Bus five miles away 



Cheap 

 Not much 



