Word: consumerization
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Many a child-bearing Russian housewife, already beset with a scarcity of salt, sugar, matches, soap, etc., last week faced the prospect of didying her infant with her own platok (kerchief) because of an acute shortage of diapers. The Government organ Izvestia revealed that of the 1938 quota of 3...
When a convention delegate offered a Roosevelt-Third-Term resolution˜such as has become routine at conventions of C. I. O. affiliates˜Chairman Lewis squelched him. Thus Mr. Lewis had left wide open the question of C. I. O. al legiance in 1940. The convention then went on...
Much more interesting than these generally recognized weaknesses in American twentieth century economy are Rogers' chapters on the anti-inflationists, the perennial budget-balancers, and on the rapid growth of interstate commercial restrictions. Inflation, as exemplified by the devaluation of the dollar, he prescribes as a possible means of relieving...
Elsewhere in the No. 1 U. S. industry, Ford depends almost entirely on its dealers' reports on consumer tastes. Chrysler's Head Statistician John Scoville spends most of his time studying registration tabulations, dealer suggestions and sales records, checks his findings with occasional direct surveys of buyer opinion...
Motormaker Sloan said he expected consumer buying to be "substantially improved over that existing during the past few months.... To assist in carrying on its stabilization of employment program, the corporation will again build substantial inventories in excess of retail demand during the winter months. . . ." Not to be outdone, President...