Word: consumptionism
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Apart from the significance of this achievement to the Atchison as the premier southwestern road, it also should have a great bearing upon the future development of its traffic territory. The road not only brings California fruits into Chicago and the eastern centers of consumption, but is also essential to...
Tea is at present enjoying a boom in Mincing Lane. Russia is beginning to buy once more. British per capita consumption has increased 30% in ten years, and a heavier demand has sprung up in the U. S., Canada, New Zealand, India, Arabia and even along the Persian Gulf. Last...
U. S. automobile manufacturers, provided with facilities for enormous output, are carefully studying foreign markets these days as an outlet for their production. One of the most promising foreign markets is Great Britain. The removal of the duty on imported cars there should prove an undoubted stimulus to the sale...
The bugbear of the oil industries has been the large stocks of both crude oil and gasoline on hand. Yet some months ago, as soon as the excessive preceding production had begun to slow up, prices for both crude and gasoline were rapidly jacked up. The oil men in adopting...
The lack of enthusiasm current concerning the oil industry has directly resulted from this policy of higher prices. Consumption of gasoline, while in heavy volume, has nevertheless been much less than anticipated, owing to the late Spring and the curtailed motoring season. As a result, gasoline stocks, although declining, are...