Word: consumerization
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¶President Hoover last week studied a system of sliding sugar tariffs brought to him by Sugarman Rudolph Spreckels of California. He jiggled it around experimentally to see if it would protect both consumer and producer, then laid it aside to proclaim an increase in the tariff on linseed oil...
Understanding of Russian industry is dependent upon realization that Russian industry is thoroughly nationalized. The Supreme Economic Council appoints for each branch of industry a Commissariat, who receives a subsidy for the promotion of the business over which he rules. Both buying and selling is done not by individuals but...
Amtorg and the rest of the Am family have to do with exports and imports. When a consumer's co-operative wants 1,000 U. S. typewriters it goes to Amtorg. Amtorg goes to a typewriter company and buys the typewriters. Then Am-Derutra, which is exclusively a transport company...
Stock market absorption of credit was regarded with misgiving. But the keynote, ringingly struck, was that there is no limit to the capacity of the U. S. consumer to consume, and that the years 1922-29 had seen a pleasing increase in the capacity of U. S. production to supply...
Consumers' View. An immediate question was: What effect will this bill, if and when enacted, have upon the cost of living? Such politicians as Massachusetts' Senator Walsh were quick to raise the old cry of "outrageous and exorbitant duties on food products," to predict direful increases in household expenses. More...