The revival in the consumption goods trades is a direct consequence of the increase in employment and wages due to the growth of Government expenditure, which has been accompanied by a slight decline in the cost of living, caused, in part, by the fall in world pric tribution of the fall in world prices to the increase in purchasing power has perhaps been more than is generally realized. Average import prices have been falling without interruption ever since the autumn of 1937, and the official index for the quarter of this year showed a fall of 128 per cent, since the third qui of 1937,
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