Consumer goods in high demand were slow to appear on the nation 's shelves and in its showrooms , frustrating Americans who desperately wanted to purchase items they had forsaken during the war . Price controls proved a principally difficult problem . As controls began to disappear in mid-1946 , prices shot upward the rise in the price of meat which doubled over a two-week period in the summer , received the most attention . In response , the government reinstituted price controls , angering meat producers who...











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