American Decades
Inflation
"U.S. Feels First Pinch of the New Credit Curbs: Auto Dealers Are Casualties in Anti-inflation War"
Magazine article
By: Life Magazine
Date: November 27, 1950
Source: "U.S. Feels First Pinch of the New Credit Curbs: Auto Dealers Are Casualties in Anti-inflation War." Life Magazine, November 25, 1950, 29.
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1950's Business and the Economy Primary Sources
- "Battle Over Television: Hollywood Faces the Fifties: Part II"
- Inflation
- "Television's Big Boom: Still to Come"
- "Over the Top"
- "What the Public Thinks About Big Business"
- "How to Make a Billion: Fables of Texas Oil"
- "Consumer Credit: High But Safe"
- "The South Bets on Industry"
- "Convention Expels Teamsters"
- "Why the Edsel Laid an Egg: Research vs. the Reality Principle"
- "The 'Invisible' Unemployed"
- "It's a Smaller World"
- "The Challenge of Inflation"
- "Success by Imitation"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
