Word: consumptionism
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The day after this incident Secretary of Commerce Hoover issued an exhortation to automobile users, garage men, et al., to save tires, declaring that, without decreasing the use of automobiles, by patching and proper use of tires it would be possible to decrease the U. S. consumption of rubber 25...
The Theory of Price Fixing. About 15% of farm produce is sold abroad. This is the surplus of production over domestic consumption in various commodities. To sell the entire crop, prices have to go down to the foreign level, and this level of late has frequently been below the cost...
The Economic Setting. The curious thing in the farmer's situation is that he is suffering when the general trend of the economic situation is all working in his favor. Ever since 1898 the consumption of food products in the U. S. has been increasing much more rapidly than the...
"But the plain truth is that beer is just an ordinary beverage. You cannot make it criminal if you try. The attempt is silly. Common sense revolts at it. Some people like beer and some don't. Some people find that it agrees with them and others do not...
A little girl, most mysteriously derived, is living at an English parsonage when the Crown Prince of Nicomedia dies. A general and a count come to claim her for the little comic opera kingdom as its heir presumptive, the daughter of the King's youngest son. For a girl...