Word: consumerization
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Although automakers turned out a record of almost 5,500,000 cars & trucks in the first ten months of this year the demand for cars is still near the top. After a consumer survey, the Federal Reserve Board predicted that there would be peak auto sales at least until the...
. . . I'm a farmer, and if your consumer-biased articles help defeat future farmer-giveaway programs and rid the farming industry of the leeches, the inefficient marginal producers, I say good work. Let's give farming back to the farmers . . .
Before the war, there was a vigorous Student Council committee known as the Committee on Consumer's Aid and Unfair Practices. In essence, the committee served as a Better Business Bureau for Harvard Square, protecting students against unscrupulous merchants and fly-by-night outfits out to make a quick buck...
There was one new condition: farmers would have to accept marketing quotas on their crops if they wanted full support. There were other new features: price support for "certain non-basic" commodities -wool, tung nuts, honey, Irish potatoes and dairy products, including whole milk -were made permanent at levels up...
The bill was loudly hailed as a compromise victory for the proponents of flexible supports over those of rigid 90% support. In a way, it was−as long as the supports stayed flexible. If it was any consolation to the consumer, the bill that almost got through was worse...