Word: consumptionism
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If now, it should be found that this huge floating debt is due to the government's inability to convert it into long term bonds, the indictment against the people is even worse. We no longer have more money than time. We are up to our ears in debt, refuse...
The lesson of the nation-wide price-cutting wave is that under-consumption is as objective in reducing prices as is greater production. The Kansas City experiment reveals another method of bringing values back to normal. As yet the scheme has not been applied in other parts of the country...
Real living costs can be reduced in but two ways, either through increasing production or through decreasing consumption. For consumers merely to divert their demand to new channels can have no effect on prices in general. So long as the public continues to spend all it makes, prices will stay...
As we read the morning paper over our breakfast coffee, it is hard to believe that in ten years time, at the present rate of consumption, the available supply of newsprint pulp will have been exhausted. Not only the leaders in national and state conservation tell us that the forests...
This little device, the work of the Bijur Motor Appliance Company of Hoboken, N. J., consists of a small 12-volt electric motor operated by a storage battery connected through a geared reduction to a Bijur automatic screw drive. On the end of the screw shaft is cut an 8...