Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annually imports ten million pounds of camphor for manufacture of laminated safety glass, explosives, celluloid, lacquers, motion picture films and medicines. Half of the imported camphor is synthesized from U. S. turpentine that has been shipped abroad. New York University's Professor John Joseph Ritter offered a cheap, comparatively simple artificial camphor right in the U. S. from home-produced materials. He uses turpentine, sulfuric acid, common salt, soda ash, aniline, sulfur...
...cash provided by the friends of his past prosperity in the form of subscriptions to the preferred stock of Cosden Oil Co. Joshua who had no money to put in was guaranteed 50% of the common. He shopped around in the oil field for months-looking for cheap oil lands. In 1927 he brought in a little well in Ector County, opening the Ector pool, and promptly sold a half interest to Texas Co. for $250,000 and two free wells. He bought a lease in Howard County that placed his new company in the Suttles Pool where...
...tires for chain stores and mail-order houses to market at cut-rate prices. Mr. Firestone also makes third and fourth grade tires but chiefly to enable his dealers to compete. So did Mr. Tew, Mr. Davis and Mr. Litchfield until last fortnight. Then they agreed to drop the cheap lines they market under their own names, tried to coax Mr. Firestone into the scheme. Mr. Firestone would have none of it. It would be an admission of defeat in his long, long joust with the mail-order tire...
...mail-order houses are determined to undersell the Big Four. Mr. Firestone is equally determined that they shall do nothing of the kind. He insists that the vendors of cheap tires misrepresent the quality of their wares. Two months ago Mr. Firestone met their lower spring & summer catalog prices. They promptly undercut (TIME...
...position of world's largest. Its Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung (weekly) has a circulation of some 1,750,000. The circulations of its Vossische Zeitung (daily), Berliner Morgenpost and Berliner Zeitung am Mittag total some 1,000,000. It also publishes many a fortnightly and monthly magazine. thousands of cheap, popular books. A fleet of airplanes distributes its daily and weekly publications to principal German cities. Though Louis Ullstein and other members of the family tried to forget their Jewish origin, both firm and family have lately been targets for Jew-hating Nazis...