Word: consumerized
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Meanwhile Mr. Wallace, with Mr. Tugwell standing at his elbow, told the Press that the objectives of the AAA were "a better balanced income in order to give the farmers a fair share without doing injustice to the consumer. I think George and Rex see absolutely eye to eye on...
Aware that the whiskey boomlet could not possibly continue long, vast National Distillers Corp. magnanimously promised: ''The man on the street who is finding legalized drinking too expensive is going to get a break. We will soon have ready some whiskies to sell to the consumer at $1.50...
¶ "With no uncertain force consumer buying was manifest immediately following Thanksgiving, and to the breadth of the Christmas demand was added the acceleration incident to the opening of an entirely new field of merchandise revenue [liquor]. . . . Reports are nearly uniform in placing the season's volume at the...
"There are certain code mechanisms already adopted that limit machine hours, prevent the substitution of machines for human labor, set minimum prices, and prevent the sale of commodities at less than cost. Through all these methods the N.R.A. is pointing the way for monopolistic price-fixing and limitation of output...
The consumer may not get so large an allowance under the code but he will at least get the benefit of strict provisions against misrepresentations. The unhappy buyer of a "doped" car can go straight to the district code Administrator with his tale of a tampered speedometer, sawdust in the...