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Price Commission

British  

noun

  1. (in Britain) a commission established by the government in 1973 with authority to control prices as a measure against inflation. It was abolished in 1980

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Meanwhile, the Price Commission will do the same for prices and rents.

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The Price Commission will set standards applying to the fees that the self-employed repairman can charge; the Pay Board will draw up rules governing what wages the employee repairman can collect.

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Price Commission staff members are conferring with the Justice Department about ways of getting such damages repaid to consumers without forcing them to sue.

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Chairman Lynn Townsend voiced the hope that the Price Commission will allow some increases on '72 models, which came out during the freeze.

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What sort of people will Nixon choose for the crucial posts of "public" representatives on the Pay Board and Price Commission?

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