Word: consumptionism
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Few industries are as unstable as that which is concerned with the production, refining and distribution of petroleum. It is always either a feast or famine. Until only a few weeks ago, the famine element seemed uppermost; overproduction had created a great surplus of crude oil for the oil companies...
The chief political figures in the Anti's firmament were Senator Bayard of Delaware and Senator Bruce of Maryland, both Democrats, and Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland, Republican. Besides the regular sessions of the Conference, there was a dinner at which Representative Hill toastmastered and the two Senators...
General Edwards, by the way, ought to be delighted by the report that golf got him his high rank. What a whale of a game the general must play, to win promotion for that alone! And besides, judging from their ardent preoccupation with the sport several eminently worthy Presidents of...
Statistics for petroleum production in 1923, now completed, show that last year broke all records with an output of 745 million barrels of crude oil, which was 187 million barrels, or a 33% increase over production in 1922. Consumption also broke all records with the figure of 730 million barrels...
2) Its Needs. "The Government must aid him. It must obtain for him lower freight rates. It must in effective fashion scrutinize the spread between production and consumption. It must not only promote cooperation among the farmers themselves, but itself must sympathetically cooperate with them."