Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Patrick H. Joyce, burly, forthright president of Chicago Great Western, bought for his road a 20% inter est in Kansas City Southern. He bought it cheap from the hard-pressed Brothers Van Sweringen. The block of 104,500 shares, said President Joyce at the time, would give Great Western "part of the trackage we need for a direct route from the Northwest to the Gulf of Mexico." As to Kansas City Southern itself he added: "We will make a railroad out of it if we can get co-operation." Last week cash looked better than a railroad...
...program temporarily: has bought supplies or manufactured goods for future use before the new codes and higher prices go into effect. Obvious result is to lessen the amount of employment that will be available after wages are raised, hours shortened. In the oil industry many a company has stored cheap oil, but oil is not a prime example. Last week, the second in which the cotton textile code was in effect, the number of bales of cotton shipped to cotton mills dropped abruptly from 312.000 to 243.000-lowest level since early May-showing how activity has slackened now that...
...jumped another guest, Professor Raymond Moley (who was not drinking): "I think you are the one that's cheap, Mrs. Patterson, for making a remark like that to one of your guests...
...Other chemical companies will probably enter the field not as whiskey makers but as distillers of spirits for blending purposes. For whiskey is not made in a day but in four to five years. Old whiskey will be cut with new or with grain alcohol. But because whiskey is cheap to make (as low as 60? a gallon in Canada where four-fifths of the retail price is tax), many a local promoter was drafting plans last week for a small distillery, when and if. There are only seven U. S. whiskey companies in business today. Under Federal license they...
Cradle of the Cheap GAL REPORTER-Joan Lowell-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Joan Lowell, who signed her name to The Cradle of the Deep, one of the best-selling true-story hoaxes of recent years, has rested on her dubious laurels for four years. When her money dwindled, she had to hunt a job. She got one as reporter on a Boston tabloid, the Daily Record. Gal Reporter tells, in ochreous tabloid style, some of her assignments. For tabloid readers who think highly enough of their favorite reading matter to buy it in hook form, Gal Reporter should do nicely. More...