Filene's famous Boston bargain basement that opened in 1909 and ending with the Great Inflation of the 1970s. Pocketbook …-1935 -- Chapter Four: The New Deal and the Problem of Wages, 1935-1940 -- PART III. THE EVILS OF INFLATION IN WAR AND PEACE, 1940 …-1960 -- Chapter Five: The Consumer Goes to War, 1940-1946 -- Chapter Six: Pocketbook Politics in an Age of Inflation, 1946 …