Consider that during World War II, consumer goods were scarce, rationed, or nonexistent. My family was delighted to get rid of our 1937 Plymouth and buy a new 1955 Studebaker after the war. As I recall, we also bought a console phonograph-radio and a new sewing machine.
Men were home from overseas, we had a baby-boom, and factories were making consumer goods again.
culture of comsumption during the eisenhower administration
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