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Table 40. — Replies to the question: When you purchase meat, do you buy at specially 
advertised prices? 
Total 
number 
of replies 
Percentage replying— 
Group 
Never 
Occasion- 
ally 
Often 
American white: 
Poor class _ 
Middle class '. 
738 
767 
778 
577 
70.5 
76.5 
79.9 
88.7 
22.6 
22.2 
18.9 
11.3 
6.9 
1.3 
Well-to-do class 
1.2 
Wealthy class ' __ 
2,860 
78.3 
19.2 
2.5 
Colored: 
202 
196 
95 
45 
50 
172 
240 
97 
183 
50 
150 
68.8 
76.5 
63.2 
75.6 
100.0 
67.4 
71.7 
73.2 
63.4 
80.0 
59.3 
19.3 
19.9 
25.2 
24.4 
11.9 
Middle class 
3.6 
Foreign: 
English __ 
11.6 
Finnish 
French 
German 
27.9 
12.9 
18.6 
19.7 
20.0 
40.7 
4.7 
Italian _. ... " 
15.4 
Jewish ... 
8.2 
Polish 
Eussian 
16.9 
Scandinavian.. . 
1 Replies from 13 cities; Baltimore, Jacksonville, and New Haven not included. 
Table 41. — Replies by cities to the question: When you purchase meat, do you buy at 
specially advertised prices'! 
[Middle class and well-to-do class American white replies combined] 
Total 
number 
of replies 
Percentage replying— 
City 
Never 
Occasion- 
ally 
Often 
Baltimore 
Binghamton ' ~~.—l 
94 
85 
100 
96 
92 
101 
99 
100 
100 
99 
100 
100 
92 
91 
98 
98 
85.1 
77.7 
73.0 
89.6 
65.2 
59.4 
88.8 
68.0 
74.0 
93.9 
96.0 
67.0 
52.2 
70.3 
95.9 
92.9 
10.6 
18.8 
27.0 
10.4 
34.8 
40.6 
6.1 
31.0 
26.0 
6.1 
4.0 
33.0 
46.7 
26.4 
3.1 
5.1 
4.3 
3.5 
Birmingham... 
Denver 
Fargo __ 
Grand Forks 
Jacksonville 
5.1 
Lincoln 
1.0 
Minneapolis 
New Haven . 
New Orleans 
Oklahoma City 
Philadelphia 
1.1 
Pittsburgh 
3.3 
San Francisco 
1.0 
Washington _ 
1.0 
All cities 
1,545 
78.3 
20.5 
1.2 
