How Value of Food Dollar Has Shrunk--Butcher Barney Barth and Mrs. Anne Healy of Chicago compare stacks of food that $5 would buy in 1941 and what it purchases today. In 1941 the assortment included two pounds of butter, three dozen eggs, three (inch and a half thick) round steaks and 15 pork chops. The 1947 assortment has shrunk to one pound of butter, a dozen eggs, one thin round steak and seven pork chops.
How Value of Food Dollar Has Shrunk--Butcher Barney Barth and Mrs. Anne Healy of Chicago compare stacks of food that $5 would buy in 1941 and what it purchases today. In 1941 the assortment included two pounds of butter, three dozen eggs, three (inch and a half thick) round steaks and 15 pork chops. The 1947 assortment has shrunk to one pound of butter, a dozen eggs, one thin round steak and seven pork chops.
How Value of Food Dollar Has Shrunk--Butcher Barney Barth and Mrs. Anne Healy of Chicago compare stacks of food that $5 would buy in 1941 and what it purchases today. In 1941 the assortment included two pounds of butter, three dozen eggs, three (inch and a half thick) round steaks and 15 pork chops. The 1947 assortment has shrunk to one pound of butter, a dozen eggs, one thin round steak and seven pork chops.
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How Value of Food Dollar Has Shrunk--Butcher Barney Barth and Mrs. Anne Healy of Chicago compare stacks of food that $5 would buy in 1941 and what it purchases today. In 1941 the assortment included two pounds of butter., three dozen eggs, three (inch and a half thick) round steaks and 15 pork chops. The 1947 assortment has shrunk to one pound of butter, a dozen eggs, one thin round steak and seven pork chops.
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[Information from item housing] Food: Misc. Incl. Testing, Cooking, Etc.
