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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

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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

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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

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Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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01/01/1942

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Liberman, Howard, photographer

United States. Office of War Information.

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40.71278, -74.00594

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