CURRENT FOOD, COAL, TAXI PRICES IN WARSAW AREA, JANUARY 1954

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500470169-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 27, 2011
• Sequence Number: 169
• Publication Date: May 3, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Current, Food, Coal, Taxi Prices in Warsaw Area,
January 1954
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"The following prices were current in the towns of Central Poland, in particu-
lar Warpau, in January 1954:
Price in
Free market
Quan~t
Article
state
(or other
~
Prices n'
3ro
1
Eggs
1.25-1.35
Egg'from under the counter
2 . .
1 kg
sugar
13.50
1 liter
Milk
2.50-3.00
3.3.20
1 kg
Butter
55.00.60.00
65.00
1 liter
Cream
18.00
1 kg
F11DUr
6.00-8.00
1 kg
Eeney
3J.00
1 Y?.g
1 kg
Mprm~ .841e
bait
0.70
1 kg
Pepper
950.00
1 kg
Pepper from paroe1e from
500.600
abroad (prices paid to
recipients by shops or
private buyers'
320.00
1 k8
Cot'tom
0.00
1 ke
1 kg
coffee from parcels from
abroad (prices paid to
recipientm)
Tex
75.00
1 packet
Macaroni.
11.00
1 kg
Macaroni meld by weight
15.00
1 liter
Olive all
800.00
1 leg
B3ack bread
2.00
1 kg
Croissant ro111o'
4.65
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Quantit Artier c.1 Price in Free Market
State Shop or other
ies (inferior quality)
t
Prices in zlotys
2.00
1
1 kg
1 kg
1 kg
1
1 kg
r
Pas
Chocolate with nuts, very in- 150-200.00
ferior 0.90-1.00
Potatoes
Apples 12.00-14.00
Lemons (very scarce lately) 8.00-10.00
Lemons 60.00
es 40.00
oran
g
1 kg
1 kg oranges in restaurant, station
buffet.., delicatessen.
50.00
Note: Oranges have disappeared from ordinary state shops
and are only available in the above mentioned establishments,
where they command a higher price.
Article Price in Free Market
(or other
h
op
State S
'Prices in zlotys
1 liter
ordinary vodka (40%)
75.00
0
1 liter
Pure spirit
151.0
00
6
l 'box
Sardines (with four eardineb?)
0.
00
1 kg
Frozen carp
19.
00
1 kg
Frozen pike
12.
00
1
1 kg
Frozen cod
1
.
00
1 kg
Herring
19.
1 kg
Meat:
ith bones)
18.00
Beef (stewing w
ith bone
82
22.00
.
2
Roast beef w
less
b
2
.
00
one
Roast beef,
26.00
Loin of beef
Veal, with bone: better quality
24-00
Veal, second quality
18.00
Mutton
30
00
Pork, raw ham
Shoulder of'~pdrk
.
30.00
Pig trotters
12.00
Veal trotters
,.5.00
Pork 13olonka'
18.00
60..00-70.00
Live chicken
1
1
Goose
90.00
1 kg
Goose (3rd quality)
22.00
Black pudding
6-9.00
Black pork brawn
18.00
White pork brawn
22.00
Ordinary sausage .(mostly
20.00
semolina)
Ordinary eauaage (better
30.00
quality)
Ordinary sausage (first
35.00
quality)
Dry 'Georgian sausage
45 45.00
5000
0
Krakow sausage
.
beet eauaage
50.0
Smoked ham
45-55.00
Roast pork with bones (Schab)
30.00
(Sauaagee are of very inferior quality, manufactured with the
addition of semolina and other extenders.)
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1 ton Coal 300 zl official Br~:ce;' ?500 zl
reel 'p'rice .
1 pair F~a ! a jrlipAa=i ' intarior .quslitY 490 zl
8hoea',: yarjii quml1.xles, ? the 300-18,00 zlYe are quite good
1 pair
1 Lady Aa$ (plastic or oilcloth),... 400.4.,
C. Taxi Farce: - ?
private taxi, for the let kilometer 2. O.zl
State-Dined taxi.
D. Restaurant meals:
D T --,.a, 6e. 3t1ste?Oxne?r!etore)
A dinner in a CDT rostal Ut: (Qe zlr.
three courses W1:G. a IAPe;gf? '~?
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