Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only creditable cheap and complete 1 vol. edition of Emerson's Essays, both series, just issued by the regular publishers, at $1.00 in cloth, 50 cents in paper, ready in the book room, at 70 cents in cloth, 35 cents. in paper...
...Enyclopaedia Britannica, 24 volumes, for sale cheap...
...Enyclopaedia Britannica, 24 volumes, for sale cheap...
...Conditions much less favorable for success of government management in a Republic. (a) Difficulty of detecting bad management. Impossibility for the public at large to do so.- Hadley, Railroad Transportation, pp. 57-60. (b) Legitimate differences in charges would not be submitted to under government ownership in a republic. Cheap transportation to a great extent dependent on such differences-Hadley, Railroad Transportation, p. 112. (c) Certain to be degradation of railroad offices into rewards for party service-Hudson, The Railways and the Republic, p. 327; Spofford, The Railroad Question...
...here should be explained. The cause of longer hours in small shops the movement to buy only before six o'clock, these, too, await investigation. More than all, the problem of the surplus unskilled sewing women calls out for remedies. Facts are wanted to show that the idea, that cheap living reduces wages, is a fiction. Are employers forced to take advantage of the over-supply of labor, and would wages fall if attempts were made to save? If a man wants to do something, let him read Mrs. Field's and Mrs. Lowell's books on charity, and then...