Word: consumerized
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But even if the Army scales down its estimates, there would be two more hurdles. The U.S. is still working under a 40-hour-week law designed not to economize but to expand employment. In the war industries, where Government paid the overtime, the work week ran up to 55...
And the second great factor in the manpower problem was that throughout the year the civilian economy boomed. Not only did the U.S. produce some $81 billions of consumer goods and services, far more than in 1929, but consumption of these goods ran far ahead of actual output due to...
Up and down the U.S. last week spread a fantastic rumor: bread, the one foodstuff of which the harassed U.S. consumer had every reason to expect an abundance, may soon be scarce. Despite elevators glutted with a two-year supply of wheat, Kansas Senator Clyde M. Reed warned that the...
Acting as the result of numerous protests it had received from Harvard students, the Council Committee on Consumer's Aid and Unfair Practices made an investigation last spring of the Cambridge Minute Man radio shop which led to a legal battle in the Small Claims Court, according to a recent...
Consumer Goods. Most retail shops have closed. Those still functioning, like Moscow's five-story Mostorg department store, have little more than rows of empty counters. Housewives can rarely get pots & pans, chinaware, hairpins, combs, brushes, soap. Men cannot buy razor blades, pens or watches.