Policy administrative files, 1929-1981.

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Policy administrative files, 1929-1981.

The records document policies and activities concerning Consumers' Research's operations, product testing, and ethical concerns. Included are correspondence, magazine and newspaper clippings, and other publications. Subjects include Consumers' Research policies, advertising and publicity, use of CR's name in advertising, branch laboratories, charitable contributions, competency and accuracy of CR, confidential restrictions, confirmation of CR's findings, consultants, cost of CR tests, sources, costs and sevices (test issue of Consumers Age), errors, CR as a fact finding organization, newsstand sales, professional associations of the staff, professional and honorary societies invitations, purchasing, CR recommendations, CR's testing service, sale of CR test materials, selection of products to test, subscription agencies, subscriber questions concerning products and testing, subscription renewal rates, stolen material (Haldemann-Julius Newsletter), and the use of CR materials.

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For details of the history of Consumers' Research, Inc. and an overview of its records, see the introduction to this finding aid . From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc., General Files, Series 28-45 (only)., 1903-1982, (Special Collections and University Archives. Rutgers University Libraries) From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc.: Administrative Files: Series 1-15, 1917-1983, (Rutgers University. Special Collections and University Ar...