Word: consumerization
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According to another version, the nudes appeared on a float labeled "For Export Only"-a reference to the fact that Britain's consumer-goods factories produce chiefly for export. A guest, inflamed by politics or alcohol, attacked the float. The crowd surged in. The float was upset. The girls...
¶ In Washington, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 1946 walkouts had cost the nation 107,475,000 man-days of work-a record loss. Nevertheless, beamed the Department of Commerce, the great U.S. consumer had gone on a record spending spree. His 1946 bill: $127 billion-$900 per...
Consumer's Research. In Clifton, N.J., Roland Michaud, 2½, discovered the family medicine chest, ate 32 aspirin tablets, drank a bottle of cough medicine, huge doses of castor oil and cod liver oil, had his stomach pumped out, felt fine.
The Risks. More reparations in consumer goods to Russia would have several important results, some good, some bad from a U.S. viewpoint. The Russian people, who had fought a heroic war, would get a slight and well-deserved increase in their living standard. Germany's neighbors, who could not...
Even so large a cooperatives' program will merely take the edge off Soviet hunger for consumer goods. It will provide less than an ounce of butter for each Russian-and one pair of shoes & stockings for every tenth Russian. But it will still be the biggest non-state production...