Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undaunted top-notch tariff Republican to the end. To a world of depreciated currencies, he made object lessons of sneakers from Japan, rubbers from Czechoslovakia. Alarmed at growing imports of such footgear, the U. S. Tariff Commission found that they were being produced abroad in terms of cheap money at less than the cost of raw materials to U. S. manufacturers in gold dollars. In 1930 Japan exported to the U. S. 1,074,096 pairs of rubber-soled shoes, in 1932, 2,467,646 pairs. Ineffective appeared U. S. tariff rates of 25% and 35% on the foreign value...
...Republicans at the Capitol, President Hoover sent word as follows: The U. S. is being flooded with cheap goods from foreign countries with depreciated currencies; unless these currencies can be stabilized. U. S. tariffs must be upped in self-protection. House Republicans responded by holding tariff hearings before the Ways & Means Committee...
Soldiers come cheap in South America. Patched up freight boats will do as warships. Even so, three Class A South American States were beggaring their treasuries last week to fling fleets of battle planes, flotillas of war craft and whole armies of eager young troops upon Leticia, a humid jungle town just under the Equator and 2,500 mi. up the world's biggest river, turgid Mother Amazon who oozes along about as fast as most women walk...
...uniforms were bought second hand from the U. S. Government," said he. "They were bought so cheap that the U. S. Government could not afford to cut off the buttons. "It was agreed that the Bolivian Government should cut them off. Someone may have forgotten...
Twelve years ago an ambitious, talented young Englishman came to Manhattan and was disheartened to find the Land of Opportunity a place where one seemed to divide one's time between lying in bed in a cheap hotel, counting squashed insects on the ceiling, and sitting on park benches, hungry. This U. S. appeared to have two bright spots, however, in the persons of an actor and actress who were quite fond of each other and of him. They were very considerate people. When the actress took him to sing and play the piano for his supper at George...