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Even the National Association of Manufacturers, who had seen no danger of a wild price rise when the N.A.M. was axing OPA to death, was now worried. N.A.M. President Earl Bunting gloomed: "If the constant upward winding of the spiral continues, you'll see one of the most terrible busts this country ever...
Rite of Spring. But this year farmers, who got only $3.39 a gallon for syrup under OPA, would not have to worry about price. It was already up to $5 a gallon, and many Vermonters were holding...
...that Ayres's ideas might do the state some good. To help make syrup uniform, Ayres invented a combination thermometer-hydrometer. If the syrup is too thin, it will spoil; if too thick, sugar crystallizes. But farmers were more impressed by the way Ayres got around the low OPA price last season. Ayres mixed maple sugar with pecans, sold the confection by mail at a rate of about $15 a gallon...
Like a Bag Race. To make matters worse, women were none too happy about 1947 fashions. They especially objected to lengthened skirts. Designers, revelling in OPA-less freedom, had gone berserk with swirls and pleats. They had dropped the hemline from the knee to at least midcalf. Some daytime dresses went almost to the ankles, making their wearers look like entries in a bag race. Resistance to these long skirts increased in direct ratio to distance from New York. In Chicago, a parade of long skirts at a fashion show drew a chorus of disgusted "Eeeks!" A customer at Chicago...
...House chamber walked California's Helen Gahagan Douglas with a shopping basket which she toted right up to the microphone. She had used the same shopping list last June, when the items in the basket totaled $10. Now, in a horrifying crescendo, she rattled off the post-OPA increases: butter, from 65? to 82?; eggs, 53? to 69?; two pounds of pork chops ("the poor man's meat"), 76? to $1.46. The new total...