Oct, 28. MAXY tee shots in Shanghai yesterday were "out of stock."
This was what shop assistants told persons who wanted to buy rice, the prices of which were creating records almost hourly with both the first grade native and foreign rice surpassing the $170 mark. Numerous persons who could afford to pay bought large quantities of the cereal, and both rice shop distants and informed Chinese quarters openly expressed their belief yesterday that the price would touch the $200 mark.
There was definitely a panic among the poor.
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