Word: consumerized
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"I want to give just one illustration." cried Sir Herbert last week at a female Liberal rally, "of how the interests of the British consumer were ignored by the National Government at the Ottawa [Tariff] Conference. The most valuable medicine for delicate children is cod-liver oil. Hundreds of thousands...
Results. Britons were bewildered by the agreements. Liberal and Labor newspapers pointedly asked what the British consumer would get in return for the higher food taxes. Old George Lansbury, Laborite leader, announced he would fight ratification with what was left of his party. Lord Beaverbrook, the Canadian-born owner of...
Program, Broadly Nominee Thomas advocates the "class struggle'' involving the peaceful displacement of capitalism by an economic system wherein the State owns and controls production for the common good. This does not mean nationalization of all industry along the lines of the postal service, with the Government owning and running...
"To buy good foodstuffs as cheaply as possible is the ambition of the English woman!" said Mrs. Runciman firmly. "A further tax [on food] would take a lot of explaining." Drawn out at greater length Mrs. Runciman said in substance that the British consumer will not submit to higher food...
"It will not do merely to state, as do Republican leaders, that the Depression is worldwide. That was not their explanation of the apparent prosperity of 1928. If they claim paternity for one, they cannot deny paternity for the other. . . . For ten years we expanded far beyond our natural and...