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Volunteer woman investigator for the Office of Price Administration (OPA) enforcement agency in Philadelphia, one of three cities selected in a test drive to discover violations of rationing and ceiling prices, in a department store checking prices of women's apparel. All investigators were required to fill out reports, regardless whether violations were uncovered or not. A number of complaints against law violations in three test cities resulted from the surprise investigation

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Volunteer woman investigator for the Office of Price Administration (OPA) enforcement agency in Philadelphia, one of three cities selected in a test drive to discover violations of rationing and ceiling prices, in a department store checking prices of women's apparel. All investigators were required to fill out reports, regardless whether violations were uncovered or not. A number of complaints against law violations in three test cities resulted from the surprise investigation

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Photographed by Albert Freeman, Alfred T. Palmer or George Danor.
Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 41, frame 446.

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01/01/1942
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pennsylvania
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