WAR-TIME SUGAR.
, Like every other commodity sugar in war-time was sold at high prices, and the number of different grades increased during that period according to the demand for a lower-priced article, trade secrets, it is said, enabling this to bo done without getting in fresh supplies. A grocer who honestly blended his stocks had threo grades on hand, viz., at tenpenee, ninepenee, and sevenponco per pound respectively when a demand arose for sugar at ninepenee halfpenny per pound. How'should he fairly mix the grades in stock to fulfil an order for forty pounds at the new price named, if not more than twothirds of the quantity ordered consisted of the highest priced quality? There is only one way of fairly mixing them, but without tho condition stated there are others. _ • •
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 151, 30 June 1928, Page 20
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131WAR-TIME SUGAR. Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 151, 30 June 1928, Page 20
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