9. Policy,, 1929-1981

Summary: Documents policies and activities concerning Consumers' Research's operations, product testing, and ethical concerns. Includes correspondence, magazine and newspaper clippings, and other publications. Subjects include Consumers' Research policies, advertising & publicity, use of Consumers' Research's name in advertising, branch laboratories, charitable contributions, competency & accuracy of Consumers' Research, confidential restrictions, confirmation of Consumers' Research's findings, consultants, cost of Consumers' Research tests, sources, costs & services (test issue of Consumers Age), errors, Consumers' Research as a fact finding organization, newsstand sales, professional associations of staff, professional and honorary societies invitations, purchasing, Consumers' Research recommendations, Consumers' Research's testing service, sale of Consumers' Research 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 Consumers' Research materials.