Word: consumerization
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The crux of the ceiling problem is that, at some point-as the prices fixed by a free economy in the spring of 1942 become increasingly maladjusted to a rapidly changing economy-it will become totally unfair and unrealistic to expect ceilings to be enforced by anyone's patriotism...
OPA's Consumer Division told the nation's housewives some facts of life this week. That they had to be told would have made their mothers and grandmothers blush for them. OPA's advice: reline coats, cut down adults' garments for children, reknit sweaters, retrim dresses...
Consumer psychology now is to spend money as thriftily as possible while buying quality. High-priced pattern sales have increased more than cheap ones. Vogue pattern sales (30?-$2) are way ahead of Hollywood patterns (15?-25?). In fabrics the good materials are selling best. Silks are virtually sold out...
Is There Enough? Estimates of this year's sugar supply range from Leon Henderson's pessimistic 5,300,000 tons (2,200,000 tons below 1941's record consumption, 1,400,000 tons below the 1932-41 average) to the Commodity Research Bureau's 8,360...
Inflation cost the retail consumer almost $700,000,000 in January, is probably costing even more now. Inflation is not something that may hit the U.S. some time. Inflation is well started here & now.