Long Islanders are currently forced to pay wartime prices for home-heating oil.

His attention was first concentrated on its agricultural produce, remunerative because of high wartime prices, on making lime, and on planting trees.

Local merchants, many from the Tutsi elite, made fortunes charging wartime prices for basic goods.

In fact, buoyed by record-high wartime prices, Ivory Coast produced a bumper crop of 1.36 million tons during this year's harvest.

Not long after his arrival in Washington, the wartime prices of farm products collapsed, which proved disastrous for a great number of farmers.

The last act began only when the deep-seated problems of the southern rural economy intensified to produce an endemic rural poverty that persisted even after the wartime prices had ended.

Moreover, the Germans were also forced to sell their steel at wartime prices until April 1, 1948, which meant large losses for the industry.

With wartime prices, his breakfast must have cost a fortune.

"Our country is at peace, but our government is charging wartime prices," he said.

Today the amounts involved would equal as much as 10 times their wartime prices.