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...morning before they had had time to sweep out the stores, sugar was going out the front doors in 100-pound orders. Customers who for years had bought from day to day and trundled purchases away in baby's perambulator carted away canned goods by the case, flour by the 50 lb. sack. The squirrel instinct was at work. With a strange reversion to the memories of World War I, U. S. housewives were building up hoards against a winter which they thought would bring high prices and short food supplies...
After a second day of this run on commodities retailers rubbed their hands. By close of business on the third day, they did not think it was fun. They roared orders at wholesalers for more sugar, flour, canned goods. Wholesalers, caught flat-footed by the rush of business, found themselves short of delivery trucks, soon found their stocks of sugar and flour near exhaustion...
...spontaneously and unreasonably as buying had spurted, prices mounted. Sugar prices advanced from one to three cents a pound. Lard went up three cents, flour almost a cent. Meat wholesalers took advantage of the spurt in business by advancing veal, pork and beef prices from two to ten cents a pound. California canners upped canned fruit prices 5 to 30? a dozen...
Seattle: Wharves were clear but no bottoms were available at a time when lumber and logs, wheat and flour, canned salmon, apples, should soon be moving. (Apple shippers were grim; Great Britain. Germany, France take all their exports.) It looked as if Seattle's $1,000,000-a-day export trade would be reduced to a trickle...
...Blanco was the big news in Spain last week: white bread. The reappearance of white-flour bread was hailed as a final sign of convalescence. More important, its reappearance was a sign that Spain is determined to continue convalescing, and not relapse into another war-of any one's making...