culture of comsumption during the eisenhower administration

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.