Word: consumerized
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All danger of runaway inflation, they said to an anxious and puzzled nation, would be over by June 1947. Meanwhile, all that was needed was a little more reconversion patchwork. They got help from some Congressmen. The House will begin consideration of a bill to extend Paul Porter's...
They are also watching Ruiz Galindo. A harddriving, self-made man, he and his business philosophy represent modern Mexico: the Mexico whose industrial revolution is just beginning. Ruiz Galindo is smart, tough and patriotic. He wants to make money for himself and he wants to see Mexico prosper. His formula...
All this means that the consumer will pay more for many an item. But it also means that he may be able to buy articles now off the market. For cheap articles, he may pay considerably more than he did before the war. But if the policy works, he will...
This time, however, Britain's pill would at least have a nice new saccharine coating. The campaign for more and harder work would be called, not austerity but a "prosperity drive"; if the drive went well, Attlee thought that by year's end the British people might expect...
No one expected U.S. industry to reconvert as fast as it had. No one expected that six months after V-J day, it would have produced so little. In big & little shops all over the nation, businessmen agonized, like Laocoon, in the coils of strikes, shortages or price troubles. Overall...