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"They have emerged," wrote economist Edward Mead, husband of Emily Fogg Mead, of the new business corporations, in 1910, "like the trees in the primeval forest, wide and deep in the desires and necessities of mankind."
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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs):
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mind curers, consumer enticements, retail wars, new commercial culture, dry goods houses, consumer institutions, model showrooms, installment selling, urban museums, commercial aesthetic, festival culture, dream culture, one retailer
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New York, John Wanamaker, Marshall Field, Times Square, Santa Claus, Fifth Avenue, World War, Commerce Department, Frank Baum, Emerald City, Garden of Allah, Bel Geddes, Thirty-fourth Street, Brooklyn Museum, Herbert Hoover, Percy Straus, Simon Patten, Rodman Wanamaker, State Street, Thorstein Veblen, New Thought, Thanksgiving Day, Children's Bureau, Dry Goods Economist, Greenwich Village
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