Word: consumerization
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Late despatches reported that Briend's "collaboration" with the Cartel had taken the form of offering to change the name of M. Doumer's proposed "sales tax" to "production tax," and making it seem to bear less upon the consumer by levying it on wholesale transactions only.
"I saw the other day in a paper that when the word 'rubber' was mentioned, an Englishman's expression was like that of the cat caught by the empty cream jug or the empty canary cage. You will understand that the word 'rubber' does not...
What is so noxious as a Trust? When the late Theodore Roosevelt was shaking his Big Stick at the meat trusts, the steel trusts, the oil trusts, every newspaper in the land published a picture of a Trust so that people would know one when they saw it. A Trust...
"Government control cannot be divorced from political control. The overwhelming interest of the consumer, not the smaller interest of the producer, would be sure to dominate in the end. . .
The United Wine Growers and Dealers of Germany sent President von Hindenburg (a moderate consumer) samples of all the different wines grown in Germany. It was said that the President's wine cellar was so well stocked that he may, without once repeating, taste a different brand of wine...