Word: consumerization
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Money. As Government and secular agencies have been taking on more & more of the burden of social welfare, church expenditures in this field have been going down. Despite a rise in consumer income of $10 billion between 1929 and 1941, contributions to churches and social welfare institutions dropped from $1.5...
Last week, businessmen were told "yes." This time the telling was done, not by unions or other outsiders, but by industry's own National Planning Association's business committee. On it sits such industrial brass as Macy's Beardsley Ruml and General Electric's C. E...
Up from Astrakhan. Pravda issued a pronunciamento: "In 1947, the prewar level of fish output must be exceeded," and published a touching letter to Stalin from the fishery collective workers of caviar-famed Astrakhan, promising to catch hundreds of thousands more ponds of fish than provided by the Five-Year...
While the U.S. fought the fever of inflation (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Canada took its price-control pills and kept its economic temperature down. But the Dominion, afraid that controls, like drugs, might be habit-forming, recently took controls off a long list of consumer goods, from candy bars to Cadillacs...
Eastern Subtraction. The Russians had made their choice. With their own ideas of economic predestination, they would not even be present in John Calvin's grey old city. The postwar deals that Soviet trade chief Anastas Mikoyan has been arranging made it clear that Russian trade would be based...