WANTED PRICES TIED TO QUALITY
Sheridan, Mary
Your Money's Worth Wanted: Prices Tied To Quality By MARY SHERIDAN CHILDREN'S shoes with paper soles, housedresses whose seams burst with the first tubbing, and a so-called "cotton" fabric made...
...Your Money's Worth Wanted: Prices Tied To Quality By MARY SHERIDAN CHILDREN'S shoes with paper soles, housedresses whose seams burst with the first tubbing, and a so-called "cotton" fabric made from lint scraps (used to make potato sacks) are just a few of the exhibits the League of Women Shoppers, Inc...
...Ceiling prices need, to use that favorite Washington word, implementation...
...Consumers Union, in a preliminary report, lists as acceptable sunburn preventives Macy's Scented Suntan Oil and Sun Breaker Lotion, Primrose House Sun Screen Lotion, Delettrez Oils of Suntan, Smooth-tan Cream, Translucid Sun Filter Lotion, Dorothy Gray Sunburn Cream, and Germaine Monteil Tan-Pruf Lotion...
...Trash that any self-respecting manufacturer would have refused to produce in 1940 now commands luxury prices in the stores," Kallet declared...
...Mothers who have to pay 100 per cent above prewar prices for children's garments, are actually paying 200 or 300 per cent more if shoddiness of the garments is considered...
...Ragland estimates that 32 mill;on people spend at least 15 minutes a day hunting for a pack...
...Cigarettes And Man Hours While the rumors continue that the cigarette shortage will be eased any day, there has not yet been any delivery on the rumors...
...It can be used about 500 times when struck on special scratch material similar to that on safety match boxes...
...What's more, they predict "even worse quality" in 1946 unless OPA coordinates quality standards and ceiling prices...
...It is water-resistant, supposedly easy to blow out, and its manufacturing cost is said to be less than a penny a match...
...OPA is doing its best to hold down prices but unless it uses quality standards and grade labeling to tie prices to quality, it is simply letting inflation in through the back door while it guards the front...
...Another answer to the safety match shortage would be the "everlasting match," which has so far been kept off the American market...
...Upgrading has raised all consumer prices since 1941, according to Arthur Kallet, Consumers Union director, with textiles and house furnishings hardest hit by the vicious wartime circle of higher prices tacked on to lower quality goods...
...Even with gradual exposure to the sun — 5 or 10 minutes the first day, then gradually increased -—sensitive skins are apt to need the protection of a "sun screen" oil or cream...
...Why some smart promoter hasn't designed and manufactured hand}- and attractive gadgets for a few kitchen matches—a container that women could carry in their handbags and a more masculine container for men—is hard to understand...
...The everlasting match, according to the Department of Justice, looks like a 2-inch piece of chalk, one-quarter of an inch thick...
...In some industries where fire hazards are great, employes are forbidden to carry loose matches in their pockets while working...
...Patents for it are controlled by the Swedish Match Company, and U. S. match manufacturers have attacked the everlasting match as danger to the American match industry...
...So You Won't Burn Sunburn can be harmful as well as painful and unattractive...
...It thinks the match companies have conspired to keep the everlasting match out of this country...
...Warning On Matches As advice to smokers, the National Fire Protection Association has warned that the loose kitchen matches which most smokers are carrying around these days in pockets or purses are something of a fire hazard...
...The Anti-Trust Division of the Department of Justice doesn't agree...
...Ayer Cream, and Norwich Sun Lotion...
...Edward F. Ragland, secretary of the Smaller Tobacco Manufacturers, says that the cigarette shortage has caused a loss of 8 million man hours a day...
...Consumers' Research lists as having "very good screening properties" these products : Dorothy Gray, Uvitan, Richard Hudnut Sun Oil, Ileliol oil, II.II...
...has on tap in its current fight to have the OPA link ceiling prices with quality standards...
...The League and Consumers Union have reported that the current quality of consumer goods has "reached the lowest point in the entire war period...
Vol. 9 • August 1945 • No. 32
