Word: consumerized
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Considerable private trade goes on, especially risky, lucrative smuggling. Most legitimate marketing is handled by consumer-producer cooperatives. In parts of the Border Region, the old landlord-tenant system is preserved with modifications. Rent and interest have been cut an average 25%. Landlords may not evict tenants.Tenants must pay their...
Said he, "We can sum it up this way: Our pricing policies should encourage the fullest possible production of goods and services at the lowest possible prices to the consumer. Unless American industry produces to the limit of its powers, there will be increased danger of depression and eventual collapse...
Into this barnyard mess squawked New York City's egg-shaped Mayor La Guardia to peck at the Government for failing to give the consumer the benefit of its egg buying. Said he: "It is unscientific, uneconomical, unfair and most wasteful and sinful for the Government to buy eggs...
The success of the synthetic rubber program antiquates the prewar economics of rubber. The U.S. is now a producer as well as a consumer, need no longer pay tribute to the old British-Dutch natural rubber cartel. This week State Department officials and industry men went to the London Rubber...
¶ The demand for consumer durable goods will be at the rate of $14.2 billion a year, he predicted, plus perhaps as much as $4.4 billion a year spent for four years to fill the backlog created by war scarcities. "For the first time in the history of the country...