Word: consumerization
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"Do you mean to suggest," asked lanky Alden Todd of the labor-owned Federated Press, "that consumer controls are policestate methods?" They are, necessarily, said the President emphatically. Any methods that you have to enforce upon the people are police-state methods.
"Would you say that other consumer controls and price rationing are police-state methods?" another newsman asked.
Clint Anderson had been guilty of bad team-play; he had also poured cold water on the generous impulse of many a U.S. citizen. Nevertheless, there was a solid nut of truth in what he had said. Trying to save grain by starting with the consumer was like trying to...
"Everywhere we have gone," said Vermont's Senator Ralph E. Flanders, machine-tool manufacturer, ex-president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and subcommittee chairman, "we have found that the margin of profit per dollar of sales has been very narrow." Robert A. Seidel, vice president of the...
Bigger Cut. Livestock raisers,according to Department of Agriculture figures, are the chief beneficiaries of high-priced meat. They now get 70? of every consumer's dollar spent on meat, as against 51? in 1939. Although it had no exact figures on the remaining 30? , the department guessed that...