Word: consumerization
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What is left will go for a sprinkling of consumer items, such as refrigerators (mainly for hospitals, blood banks, etc.), and machine tools needed for the overall reconversion job.
Up stepped a third leftist: slight, parchment-faced Sydney R. Elliott, 43, who made his mark on the consumer-cooperative Reynolds News, though the Beaver hates the cooperative movement. Elliott lasted as long as Beaverbrook was pouring his immense vitality into the war effort. Through most of the war Churchill...
Meanwhile the U.S. consumer was not being very helpful. U.S. income payments in December had reached an all-time high of $14.4 billion, and the consumers seemed to be less concerned than OPA about the cost of clothing. In New York City wearing-apparel sales during the week of Feb...
The Government's virtual ban on convention travel (deadline, Feb. 1) made this convention the last such gathering any of the buyers would attend until the transportation crisis eases. They were already strapped for merchandise (anything they bought was as good as sold), but with few exceptions the apparel...
Thus, he argued, price ceilings on such consumer goods as textiles, which will probably be plentiful soon after war's end, should probably be dropped at once. But ceilings on scarce durable goods, such as autos and refrigerators, will be needed to hold prices in line until production comes...