Use it up
Wear it out
Make it do
Or do without.
Old New England maxim
That advice has long been out of fashion in a nation surfeited with material abundance, but now it may be on the verge of a comeback. At the height of its biggest boom, the U.S. seems almost to be based on an economy of scarcity. Shortages of an astounding variety of goodsfuel oil, nonferrous metals, wool, copper, cotton denims, vinyl records, plastic bottles, to name a feware jacking up prices, interfering with production, and in some...
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