Word: consumerized
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How many did you get?" "I got six," said Elmer. "Whose signatures were they?" asked Senator Black. "Well, my mother, a boy friend, a fellow who lives next door-a mechanic- and I got three others." The committee, charmed with its witness, continued its questioning: "Did you tell the people...
Eighteen-year-old Chauffeur Stoner, a consumer of cocaine sandwiches, egged on by his neurotic 38-year-old mistress, Mrs. Francis Mawson Rattenbury, murdered her 67-year-old husband whom she had always called by the pet name "Rats." So harshly did English public opinion crack down on Mistress Rattenbury...
Though Colonel Morse is a remote figure to most of his staff, he insists on having his research director in an adjoining office. Not a penny has been scrimped on research during Depression, for the Colonel's passion is mechanical improvement of his products-a stronger selling point for...
Slowly through the winter, while the meat supply was dwindling, the price to the consumer was creeping up. By February housewives everywhere began to complain (TIME, Feb. 25). Resentment boiled into a one-day consumers' strike in Los Angeles where 10,000 housewives boycotted their butchers, forced them to...
Patiño Tin. Though he would be the last to admit it. Edward Joel Cornish of National Lead Co. is indirectly one of the biggest contributors to the Bolivian cause in the Gran Chaco War. The Bolivian Government finances the war with a "patriotic" tax on exports; Bolivia'...