1. On affluence and its disputes in North America, see J. Parr, Domestic Goods: The Material, the Moral and the Economic in the Postwar Years, London, University of Toronto Press, 1999, e.g. p. 31,
2. and M. Jacobs, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in 20th Century America, Princeton University Press, 2005, esp. pp. 246–61.
3. J. Holder, ‘The Nation State or the United States? The Irresistible Kitchen of the British Ministry of Works, 1944 to 1951’, in R. Odenziel and K. Zachmann (eds), Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology and European Users, London, MIT Press, 2009, esp. p. 244.
4. D. Nunnerley, President Kennedy and Britain, London, Bodley Head, 1972, esp. pp. 34–5, 87, 219–20, 232–3.
5. See for the period under discussion D. Horowitz, The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939–1979, Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 2004, esp. chapter 5, pp. 129–61.