Word: consumerized
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. . . .Drop the OPA and watch such scarce items as men's suits, topcoats and dress shirts skyrocket in price. You say that competition-not Government regulation-is a factor in preventing inflation. The mentioned apparel is so scarce that it would be asinine to believe that competitors would immediately...
At best, however carefully and sympathetically planned, price control would be in conflict with the traditional U.S. system. And many a businessman considers Chester Bowles far from sympathetic-possibly because, in his fight for the consumer's pocketbook, he has become the darling not only of the nation'...
Already Labor's Minister of Fuel and Power, Emanuel Shinwell, onetime tailor, speaking for the new mine boss, the Government, had warned of "drastic action" against wildcat strikes. Said he to Scotland's pitmen: "Nationalization is not intended primarily to benefit the miner. There is the coal consumer...
Last week, the fraying consumer found out where some of the clothing was:
In one announcement after another, the U.S. Army has liquidated that part of I. G. Farbenindustrie in its zone. Some plants of the globe-girdling cartel were actually destroyed. But others kept right on making civilian products. To Germans, remembering the resurrection of German big business after World War I...