Word: consumerization
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Denouncing the A.A.A. program for having "endangered our food supply, reduced consumption, and opened the avenue for future monopolies in which the farmer and rich processor would be able to gouge the consumer" Carle C. Zimmerman, Associate Professor of Sociology, recently returned from a White House visit at which he...
Even louder was the fanfare when the Soviet Government, announcing that it had "decisively overcome" Russia's shortage of consumer goods, abolished restriction cards (TIME, Oct. 7), threw open Moscow stores said to be bulging with more than the public could buy and dispatched throughout the world Soviet newsreels...
Nelson Doubleday, not through his book stores but through his mail order sales & book clubs, is himself a price-cutter and for that reason is by no means popular in the book trade. Jack Strauss, Macy's bookman, is his good friend. But shrewd Mr. Doubleday wanted a test...
"Great savings have been made possible in other ways. Organic accelerators for speeding up the curing process and at the same time improving the rubber resulted in a saving of $40,000,000 to the industry and $50,000,000 to the consumer."
"Yes," slashed back Senator Glass, "I think they might be. ... I am not facetious about it; I am serious about it. I do not want to be fined and put in jail because I just cannot control the actions of my queen bees." Last week the Senate relieved Apiarist Glass...