Word: buying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saturdays work slows, and the city's center fills with men, women and children with pesos in their pockets. They mill through Sears, Roebuck, buying made-in-Mexico soap, blankets, toys and washing machines. They sit in chrome chairs along barbershop and beauty-parlor walls, waiting and listening to the hum of electric clippers and dryers. Young wives come in fashionable maternity middy blouses, push wire carts through the aisles of bright supermarkets, squeeze cellophane-wrapped loaves of Bimbo bread and Bimbollos (rolls). Husbands buy bottles of the new, high-quality tequila (from the modernized distilleries in the town...
...after the 1953-54 recession. More secure in their personal income, consumers are now planning stepped-up purchases, particularly in housing and household goods. Department-store sales, already equal to 1957, reflected this. While rising prices on new cars brought some sales resistance, consumers were swinging to the buy side on both new and used cars...
...Leightons were chosen for the trip because they were talking with Link-letter when a pre-set alarm rang. "I was speechless," says Leighton. "I've never won anything in my life. I could buy nine out of ten raffle tickets and still lose...
Many so-called "unconscious and irrational" motives are really quite the opposite, Bauer went on. "I don't see why a man is more rational to buy a car for transportation than for status, for instance. Use of appeals to this type of motive have, moreover, brought them to the center of consciousness," Bauer argued...
...would buy some tangible goods, a television set, a washing machine..." said the Democrat to the audience. "Or a lot of beer," rumbled an audible Republican in the audience...