Word: consumerized
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Where is that common sense of which we Americans were once so proud? So they want a raise because the cost of living has risen; but isn't it evident to even the most selfish that any increase in consumer purchasing power must necessarily add still more to that...
But there was also a brighter side. The Nast pattern business was on the upgrade due to fatter consumer paychecks. The Nast $2,000,000 printing and engraving plant runs three shifts (it prints the New Yorker, Mademoiselle, Nation's Business, a half-dozen other magazines). British Vogue'...
Nevertheless, the politically influential forces of production are by no means simply those of monopolistic capital. They are also those of monopolistic labor, the unions. "In recent years it has become clear that capitalism and trade-unionism stand and fall together. Both share in the profits of production, and represent...
War-The Way Out. Small wonder that the voter, the consumer, the little man decided there must be something basically wrong with democracy and glanced about the world uneasily for a way out. Author Carr asserts that in the U.S. and Britain the bewildered, apathetic little man has thus far...
The American consumer, addicted for years to swearing by Camay, Camels, and Camphor, Ice, is in for a rude shock. His favorite brands may soon disappear from the market if the plans of WPB for concentrating civilian production in a few "nuclear" plants is adopted. Worried by the wastefulness of...