FOOD PRICES TOPPLE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22440, 22 September 1947, Page 6

FOOD PRICES TOPPLE

CHICAGO MARKET

LIVING COSTS MAY FALL (11 am) NEW YORK, Sept. 21. Grains continued their downward price plunge on the Chicago marKex yesterday, heralding a possible tounc ture in the record high cost of filing. The fall, which is the fifth in the last six days, was accompanied by decnnes during the past few days in JivertocK prices and a long list of commodities, including meat, butter, eggs, flour ana Co The Argentine delegate to the United Nations, Senor Enrique Cor°mma s , denied that Argentina was in selling wheat to needy European countries at 5 dollars 90 cents abushel while the United States sold at the cost price, 2 dollars 70 cents ___ rm , s i v "We have contributed f«ier°usiy without reservations, to the betterment of the human groups victimised by the long, hard war. and our aid has; nevei been selfish or based on politics, ne Sa The Argentine farmers .were 'being paid for wheat and corn at double tne rate they received in VJIJ- _,