Facts about price ceilings and how they are working were coming clearer last week. Examples:
¶ The main job of making ceilings work has been done, not by the Government, but by the Government's ancient whipping boys—the big chain stores.
¶ Ceilings have not put any little stores out of business that would not have gone out of business anyway.
¶ The smaller the store, the less likely it is to have heard of OPA or its ceilings.
Big buying & selling groups have the biggest stake in price sanity. Aware of this, and of their own conspicuous position in...