Word: decontrolling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Decontrol of restaurant prices was part of a general tendency to lift price control on food. Last month, when fish in retail stores was decontrolled and fish prices zoomed, housewives refused to buy until fishmongers stopped gouging. Grocers, pleading that last year's drought had made vegetables scarce, put their prices up, and housewives stuck to meat & potatoes, turned away from cauliflower at 2/6, cabbage at a shilling a pound...