Word: consumptionism
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Unfortunately for the rubber manipulators, 70% of rubber production is sold in the U. S. American rubber buyers considered the higher prices unreal, and bought only from hand to mouth, Moreover, the general adoption of cord tires tended to reduce rubber consumption because of their better wearing qualities compared with...
He held that it was fundamentally wrong to tax food and stated that his budget (TiME, May 12) had been introduced with a view to the abolition of all food taxation. If the preference resolutions were passed, said he, "taxation on food would have to be increased, because the Dominions...
Cotton is so high that even Democrats can find nothing there to quarrel about. Wheat's recent rise is cementing the Republican hold on the Northwest farmers, and dooming third-party and Democratic efforts in that region. The rise in wheat has not been due to mere manipulation. Some...
It remained for President James A. Farrell* of the United States Steel Corporation to strike the real keynote of the convention in his optimistic assertion of the value of our foreign trade and its great future possibilities. Mr. Farrell pointed to Cuba as an example of the way American investment...
Cuba's consumption of U. S. products. (P. 23.)