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Excerpt from Wartime Changes in the Cost of Living: July, 1914-March, 1919 National Industrial Conference Board. Research Report no. 9, Wartime Change: in the Cort of Living. August, 1918. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Changes in the Cost of Living: July, 1914 July, 1919 This table Shows that, while the average increase in food prices for the country as a whole was 84% within the period, the deviation from this average in these 39 cities was for the most part small, tending to indicate that changes had generally been fairly uniform the country over. The increase of 90% to July, 1919, is, therefore, entirely representative of the increase which had occurred within the five years from July, 1914, to July, 1919. It is impossible to foresee the course of food prices in the immediate future. As already noted, Since 1913 there has been an annual increase throughout the last five or six months of the year. On the other hand, many forces were in Operation in July, 1919, to check a further rise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.