Temps de guerre l'évolution du coût de la vie .. . 913 et 100 est pris comme periodsare au prix d'autres exprimées par rapport à cette moyenne. Le prix des pommes de terre a chuté considérablement en 1915par rapport à 1914, et la plupart des autres prix tomba quelques-quoi, mais le prix moyen de sucre, de farine et de maïs plus mealwere. En 1916 tous les articles ont montré une upwardmovement d'une certaine dynamique, qui s'est poursuivi en thenext année. En effet, alors que le taux d'augmentation jusqu'à juin,1918, variait pour les différents articles, aucun dans la liste savepotatoes ont montré un prix inférieur qu'il portait en 1916. Il semble que l'une des plus

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Wartime changes in the cost of living .. . 913 is taken as 100 and prices at other periodsare expressed in relation to that average. The price of potatoes dropped considerably in 1915as compared with 1914, and most other prices fell some-what, but the average prices of sugar, flour and corn mealwere higher. In 1916 every article showed an upwardmovement of some momentum, which continued into thenext year. Indeed, while the rate of increase up to June, 1918, varied for the different articles, none in the list savepotatoes showed a lower price than it bore in 1916. It appears that one of the most important factorsin the rising cost of food in 1917 was the abnormallyhigh point reached by potatoes, flour and corn meal, and the advance in the cost of sugar and lard, all of which, but especially potatoes, flour and sugar, count heavilyin the average food budget. The drop in the pricesof potatoes and flour in the winter of 1917 and spring of 10 Digitized by Microsoft® Chart S, National Industrial Conference Board, Research Report No. 9. Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Digitized by Microsoft® 1918 apparently brought down, if only slightly andtemporarily, the consolidated food price curve, despitethe advance in price of other articles. Special Studies. The United States Railroad WageCommission, appointed in January, 1918, by the DirectorGeneral of Railroads to make a survey of certain mattersconnected with the wages of railroad employees, usedthe United States Bureau of Labor Statistics indexnumbers as the basis of its study of food prices, andconcluded that the average price of food throughout thecountry increased 52% between January 1, 1916, andJanuary 1, 1918. This is tantamount to a 52% increasewithin the war period, since, as already pointed out, no significant increase in food prices occurred until 1916.The percentages of increase were: eastern territory, 52%;southern territory, 56%; western territory, 47%.^ A study of actual expenditures for food by 265 families, made for the

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