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Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Sergeant Frank Hoffman is on a busman's holiday from his job as cook at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, buying sausage to cook for his girl friend before he goes back to camp. Sergeant Hoffman is shopping in Anthony Weber's store in the German section of New York. Both Hoffman and Weber are glad to be in the liberty-loving United States instead of Germany, and each is doing his part to protect our democratic system of government from the Nazi forces which threaten to destroy it. Hoffman, of course, is in the Army; Weber is cooperating with other patriotic American storekeepers in the battle against inflation by displaying a price ceiling sign in German
Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Grateful that the United States has given him the freedom which was denied him in his native country, Mr. Brafman is proud and eager to do everything he can to cooperate with the government in the fight against inflation. Like many other tenants of New York's East Side marketplaces who feel as he does about their new homeland, he has posted his ceiling prices where his customers can easily see them
Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. America's shopper must be able to see and understand ceiling prices, so Freda Altberg's small yard goods shop in one of New York's East Side marketplaces has maximum prices for its stock posted in Yiddish. The sign reads, "Price Ceilings on Yard Goods," and lists the various types of cloth with their ceiling costs per yard
A black and white photo of a man in a grocery store. Office of War Information Photograph
A black and white photo of a man sitting in front of a store. Office of War Information Photograph
Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Charles Ruggiero, clerk in a grocery store in New York's Italian section, wishes the handful of spaghetti he is breaking were Mussolini's neck. The ceiling price sign above his head, printed in Italian, is helping to defeat Il Duce by controlling inflation, one of America's most dangerous enemies
Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Lee Bow, manager of a large wholesale and retail store in New York's Chinatown, is making a sign in Chinese to show the ceiling prices for various articles sold in the store, according to the regulations of the Office of Price Administration (OPA). America's Chinese population is giving its full cooperation to the government in the battle against inflation and against the Axis
Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Lee Bow, manager of a large wholesale and retail store in New York's Chinatown, is making a sign in Chinese to show the ceiling prices for various articles sold in the store, according to the regulations of the Office of Price Administration (OPA). America's Chinese population is giving its full cooperation to the government in the battle against inflation and against the Axis
Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. In a large store in the heart of New York's Chinatown, manager Lee Bow, at right, is attaching a price ceiling sign to a sack of rice so that his customers will easily understand his maximum prices for this commodity. Clerk Eng Hong pours rice with the help of Kai Wong and his older brother Fung Wong. The small tag on this sack also shows the ceiling price for this grade of rice
Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. The plea to "Buy United States War Stamps and Bonds for Victory," which completes the ceiling price sign, emphasizes the patriotic spirit shown by O. Schwartz, proprietor of a children's dress stand in one of New York's East Side marketplaces. Mr. Schwartz shows his desire to help his country by posting his maximum prices in cooperation with the government's fight against inflation
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Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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Date
01/01/1942
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Liberman, Howard, photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
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