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Teenage Consumer Habits From the 1940s to the Present

Teenage Consumer Habits From the 1940s to the Present — Photograph by David Brandon Geeting

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By Julie Ma

December 4, 2014 at 12:50 PM UTC

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This article is part of the December 8, 2014 issue of businessweek.

Teenage Consumer Habits From the 1940s to the Present

1941 Popular Science prints a new word—“teen-ager”—in a sentence claiming they “never knew teen-agers could be so serious.”