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Can Americans cut back? “Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without” circa 1943, and how World War II indirectly led to bikinis

October 18th, 2010 link to (permalink)

I don't think of us Americans as people that are good at cutting back. I also feel like recycling wasn't something that we even considered until the 1970s. But I recently read something rather surprising.

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