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...ever dared to suggest openly that a product's quality was really not always wunderbar. Then along came Journalist Waldemar Schweitzer with a brand-new brand-conscious magazine called DM (for Deutsche Mark). DM tested and graded consumer goods for design and durability, published ratings ranging from sehr empfehlenswert (highly recommendable) down to a damning nicht empfehlenswert. DM's circulation has soared to 360,000 copies weekly, and its initial debt of $250,000 has long since been paid off. But DM has also been socked with 60 court actions by irate manufacturers seeking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Necessary Rumpus | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

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