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...supermarkets of Chicago, Carl Sandburg's "hog butcher for the world," pork chops that sold in September for 98$ per Ib. recently brought $1.19. "I'm no longer just buying meat-I'm investing in it," grumbled one typically exasperated shopper. Throughout the nation last week, food prices were a major concern. AFL-CIO Boss George Meany complained that in his favorite Mrs. Adler's matzoh-ball soup, the number of malzoh balls per can had sunk from four to three, in effect raising the price. Humorist Art Buchwald fantasized that President Nixon will lake...
...millions of American consumers, the debate over Richard Nixon's anti-inflation program will be settled at the supermarket check-out counter. Regardless of what economists and politicians can show on their cost-of-living charts, the inflation index that means most to the consumer is the cost of food. President Nixon, deeply embarrassed by a spurt in the most basic price of all during a period of wage-price controls, mobilized his Phase II machine to fight the battle of the porkchop bill...
...short, Nixon's search for profiteering middlemen may well prove difficult and discouraging. Price Commissioner Grayson noted that when the public gets mad about food prices, the Government traditionally blames the "middleman." After meeting with the supermarket executives, Connally added disingenuously: "I didn't use the word middleman. I don't know where it came from...
...into the reasons for rising food prices. Said President Nixon last week: "If food prices don't start moving down, other action will have to be taken." As politicians are discovering, much of the battle of the ballot this year will be fought on the floor of the supermarket...
BETTY MCFADDEN, 50, merchandising vice president of Chicago-based Jewel Tea Co., is the first woman executive of that big supermarket chain. The climb has taken 20 years, and she says without bitterness, "I haven't moved as fast as I would have had I been...