Word: consumerization
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Geraldine Farrar, soprano emeritus, sent OPA General Manager Chester Bowles a few suggestions from Ridgefield, Conn., where she heads a consumer committee of the local rationing board. Her ideas: reduce OPA's printed matter and its "complex reiteration"; reduce the "verbiage to a point of clarity"; have a little...
Two Answers. Whoever inherits the empire, Baer and Wente make a logical team to work in harness under the brilliant, ailing Mario and his indestructible father. Baer, the consumer finance expert, is the perfect answer to A. P.'s booming small-loan business (the bank had 3,000,000...
Next day, at 2:30 p.m., balding House Clerk Irving Swanson began reading the message. The President was not only vetoing a bill; he was confidently, almost scornfully, lashing Congress. Some passages sounded almost like the old days of the fighting New Deal. Swanson's mellifluous voice accented the...
In 1942, said Nelson, the consumer got more goods and services than he had ever had before-except for slap-happy 1941, when the war program took a far smaller share of total output than its 40% bite by the end of 1942. This year there is no more slack...
> Subsidies are themselves inflationary. They keep prices down artificially at a time when the average consumer already has more money than he can spend, as he buys up what goods there are. As ex-President Herbert Hoover said last week: so long as excess money is not drained off, subsidies...