. History of the United Co-operative Baking Society Ltd., a fifty years' record, 1869-1919. ugust 1914. For the first fewdays it seemed as if chaos had suddenly developed. Thepeople seemed to go mad with panic, and rushed to purchasegoods wherever these could be procured, careless of the priceswhich they were called on. to pay. To the traders, large andsmall, it must have seemed .like the beginning of a tradingmillennium, and they took immediate advantage of the positionin which they found themselves. Prices doubled, trebled, andquadrupled; yet the eager rush to buy continued. The poorbought w
. History of the United Co-operative Baking Society Ltd., a fifty years' record, 1869-1919. ugust 1914. For the first fewdays it seemed as if chaos had suddenly developed. Thepeople seemed to go mad with panic, and rushed to purchasegoods wherever these could be procured, careless of the priceswhich they were called on. to pay. To the traders, large andsmall, it must have seemed .like the beginning of a tradingmillennium, and they took immediate advantage of the positionin which they found themselves. Prices doubled, trebled, andquadrupled; yet the eager rush to buy continued. The poorbought what they could, but they soon reached the end of theirmeagre resources. Not so the rich, however. Amongst them,the panic seemed to be even greater than amongst the poorersections of the community, and they provisioned their housesas if for a siege, careless as to who must want if only they hadplenty in store. The bakers of Glasgow were also the victims of the profiteeringcraze which had suddenly enmeshed the trading pubhc, and ata meeting which took place on the afternoon of 3rd August,. z< o H ZOH< I- < zo H< o Q
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