Word: consumptionism
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On the short end of the radio spectrum, interference between the waves is avoidable through proportionately shorter spacing. Where only 12 stations could operate in a 100-metre range of the upper scale, many times that number can be accommodated by the first 100 metres of the lower scale. This...
Sugar consumption, however, is steadily increasing in the U. S. In the eight months ending Aug. 31 about 3,755,000 tons of refined sugar were consumed in the U. S., against 3,540,000 tons for the same eight months of 1924. Actual consumption in 1924 was 4,854...
The late Vice President Marshall, when asked what the nation's most urgent need was, replied, as everyone knows: "A good 5-cent cigar!" Many tobacconists and tobacco consumers have agreed with him. The rise of wages and material prices during the War rendered the former "popular-priced smoke...
-Sweden, situated between two prohibition countries-Norway and Finland, claims to be soberer than either. Each household is allowed four liters of liquor per month. Since 1911 when liquor restrictions were adopted, consumption has fallen from 2 liters per capita per annum to 12 liters, "public offenses" from 47 per...
So profitable have the luxury duties proved which were imposed a year ago that it is reported the Department of Commerce and Industry will advocate new import duties on watches and phonograph records. The profitableness of such duties indicates the spreading field of Japanese consumption and also of manufactures, for...