French Police "Guillotine" Food Rackets

Series

Series Name

British Paramount News

Issue

Issue No.

1842

Date Released

25 Oct 1948

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1French Police "Guillotine" Food Rackets
2. 2Royal Family Attend Colville Wedding
3. 3Yeomen Compete for Ploughing Championship
4. 4Home Perm Now Rules the Waves
5. 5Thirty-Nine Die in Scottish Air Crash
6. 6First War Admirals Honoured

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 6

Summary

French Food Ministry conducts new offensive against black market. Inspectors swoop down on Paris butchers and compel price reductions ordered by government.

Keywords

Food and cooking; Economics; Shops and shopping; Crime

Library number

17262

Length of story (in feet)

101

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