Food Leads Wholesale Price Jump: Wholesale Prices Up .6%, Biggest Jump Since May
Wholesale prices took the biggest jump in six months in November, including a 3 per cent rise for food that is likely to make Christmas turkeys) and eggnog more expensive. :</br></br>Wholesale prices for finished consumer goods such) as clothing, television sets and appliances also foretold higher prices for early 1970.</br></br>6.7	per cent, eggs nearly 23 per cent and vegetables 34 pei cent, the Labor Department said yesterday in revising sharply upward its earlier preliminary November wholesale price report.</br></br>I Û÷Û÷There were some very big i increases in those prices,Û said j Dr. Joel Popkin, assistant commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The wholesale food prices often translate quickly into higher supermarket prices.</br></br>The report also showed a broad range of increases in industrial raw materials, where prices rose four-tenths of 1 per centÛÓdouble the earlier estimate.