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The Federal Reserve Board this week promised the public its first taste in over four years of the old American custom of installment buying. "Regulation W" (wartime consumer credit control) will be relaxed enough to remove all restrictions for the installment purchase of building and home repair materials. If the...
Chester Bowles and his OPA were under fire last week. Retail merchants, after scanning the list of 1000-odd consumer luxury items released from price controls, decided that OPA's mountainous labors had brought forth a mouse or two.
The Kaiser. On details of this venture into the postwar consumer field, Kaiser was vague. The Kaiser would be a "large, yet lightweight car, startlingly different." But the final design has not been set. Neither has a plant been selected to make it nor dealers to sell it. But of...
Teen-Age Girls and Where's the Meat (MARCH OF TiME-20th Century-Fox) deal briskly and informatively with two wartime phenomena which have become national preoccupations. The teenage girl, multiplied by some six million, has become a consumer with a mind very much her own: an object of...
"The important and astounding fact is that in 1944, the year in which the crescendo of war mounted to a thunderous climax, the [civilian] American consumer . . . was furnished with more goods and services than in any year since 1941."