Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Balbo was coming home. Banners and draperies hung from every balcony. Streets were festooned with lanterns. Billboards and telephone poles were plastered with pictures of Italo Balbo and his officers. Electric signs blazed the proud boast: "At the Order of Il Duce All Goals Are Reached." Special trains, with cheap excursion fares for the occasion, streamed in with thousands and thousands of countryfolk from all over Italy. The fever of excitement blazed higher and higher as the Balbo armada covered its final...
...catch her breath at Newcastle, Maine. She planned to address the state Federation of Labor at Springfield this week before returning to her Washington office. Madam Secretary Perkins' office is on the seventh floor of the ugly Labor Department building, sandwiched in between a garage and a cheap rooming house. It is a large bare room with north light. Madam Secretary Perkins uses a big flat-topped desk, piled with papers and equipped with two telephones. She arrives at 9 o'clock, eats lunch from a tray, goes out for dinner at 7, returns to work until midnight...
...market for hot bonds is chiefly among reputedly honest businessmen who are in financial trouble. They buy them cheap, use them as collateral for loans or to sweeten portfolios of their institutions. Some are sold to insurance companies which would rather pay a "reward" of 40? on the dollar for the bonds than stand the full loss covered by their policies. Repurchase of loot from the famed $1,000,000 Grand National Bank robbery in St. Louis two years ago broke a first-class scandal involving many a St. Louis lawyer, businessman and politician...
...building Aluminum Co. Patent struggles had threatened their aluminum monopoly but they bought out contenders whom they could not beat at law. As their patents expired they fortified their monopoly by other means-acquired all the available bauxite deposits in the U. S. and South America, pre-empted cheap waterpower sites at Niagara, in the Carolinas, in Canada. The Aluminum company got rid of competition as effectively as Standard Oil before it, and as unscrupulously, said would-be rivals. Profits were plowed back into the business-$70,000,000 of them had gone back in by 1917. The market value...
...Opera Comique where French and Spanish women performed; the Morgue, where the proprietor maintained a standing offer of five free drinks to any man who could find undergarments on one of his pretty waiter girls. Besides the dancehalls and saloons, Pacific Street and vicinity had its cheap "cow-yards" which were squalid honeycombs of harlots' cubicles and more expensive parlor houses. Pitiful, and far more shameful, were the Chinese cribs, filled with slave girls bought or kidnapped in China by agents of San Francisco dealers...