Word: consumerized
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The people of Italy would be glad enough to see some changes, since their limping economy has for a year showed typical symptoms of wartime inflation. The only staple food of which they can get anything like a normal supply is sugar. Clothes and consumer products are scarce. But these...
Ever burgeoning out with novel ideas and nearing the state of a complete vicious bureaucracy, Harvard went one better than its "Can we take care of your baby" bureau last week when it established a "Consumer's Aid" bureau to help "students who feel that they are being charged an...
The letter explains the general setup of the committee, and that the original intention had been to publish and compare prices along the idea of "Consumer's Research." But the natural difficulties presented plus the arbitrary comparison of quantity, quality, etc., without the benefit of highly specialized laboratories made this...
Immediate purpose of the President's plan: to help check inflation, by draining off a few more billions from workers' payrolls, cutting consumer purchasing power. A long-range object is to create a $5,000,000,000 Social Security fund to soften the effect of a possible post...
The "Consumer's Aid" bureau is an attempt to aid students who feel that they are being charged an exorbitant price for merchandise or are not being given for adequate and thorough service for the price which they are asked to pay.