Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unused to shoes." Meanwhile what of Son Tommy Bat'a? At the funeral of Father Thomas last year Uncle Jan and all the working Bat'a part ners took a solemn vow "in the presence of our dead chief to uphold his ideals: service to customers through cheap shoe production and service to fellow workers through high wages!" On the bier was laid a bunch of white roses from Thomas Bat'a's son with the inscription : "I prom ise. Tommy." Tommy has kept his promise like the crown prince of shoedom that...
...think, Mr. Ruppel, you are a very cheap type of man to criticize the man who happens to be your employer and my brother...
...question of "stretch outs," the practice of making one mill worker tend a larger number of looms as an offset to higher pay. But President Roosevelt could & would not tarry on details because: 1) cotton mills have lately been boosting production to finish as much goods as possible at cheap rates before their costs go up; 2) on July 17 it will be 31 days since the Recovery Administration began to function; 3) big industries were beginning to lag in submitting their codes to Washington for approval...
...days before another Luckenbach boat had sidled into its slip in Manhattan with a first consignment of paraffined oranges. Luckenbach men and officials of the processing company which had devised a cheap way of dipping the fruit in paraffin, waited anxiously on the pier. They peeled off a few paraffin skins, found the fruit beneath succulent, glowing with health. Great was their rejoicing at the success of the new process...
...builders as "Mister Harriman." "Mister Vanderbilt," J. P. Morgan. "Mister Mellon" and Bruce Barton with Trailblazer Meriwether Lewis, Poet MacLeish concludes: You have just beheld the Makers making America: They screwed her scrawny and gaunt with their seven-year panics: They bought her back on their mortgages old-whore-cheap: They fattened their bonds at her breasts till the thin blood ran from them: Men have forgotten how full and clear and deep The Yellowstone moved on the gravel and grass grew When the land lay waiting for her westward people...