Word: consumerization
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In the most significant confession it had ever made of the inadequacy of its state-monopoly trade system, Communist Russia started beating the drums last week for something suspiciously like the profit motive. Pravda proclaimed that the "monopolist" position of state stores was hurting trade and lowering production. It demanded...
The emphasis now was less on what the public bought over the counters and more on what industry needed. Pricewise, the brakes were off production. The dislocations on metals which had crippled manufacture of batteries, wiring and parts for autos and other products could now be adjusted-at a price...
The real power in the Federal Reserve was still its astute, millionaire chairman, Marriner Stoddard Eccles. He showed this by quickly slapping down Jake Vardaman three days after he had brought his good cheer to the Morris Planners. At a New England bank management conference in Boston, Eccles said bluntly...
Four speakers, representing as many shades of economic opinion, will publicly probe into the facts behind the current shortages of consumer goods at the second session of the Harvard Forum tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in Emerson D.
They will trace the effect of consumer shortages on the American economy and discuss the efforts being taken by the government and business to alleviate the shortages. An admission tariff of 25 cents will be charged.