Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sugar was cheap all last year and housewives tried to save money by putting up their own preserves. Hence food canners bought fewer cans. Likewise there was a smaller demand for industrial containers such as varnish cans. So it was no surprise when last week American Can Co. announced 1931 earnings of $15,529,000 against...
...eyes) grows up. She marries the hatchetman but falls in love with a worthless Oriental who takes her to China and sells her into slavery. Robinson with his axe retrieves her. The narrative, sensational and gory, unlikely and over deliberate, resembles a Sunday feature story in a cheap newssheet. Typical shot: an old Tongster (Dudley Digges) registering Chinese imperturbability by blinking when Robinson asks him a question...
...arrived in 1907 at the age of 18. Bellhopping at the Jefferson Hotel, St. Louis, brought him enough money to send for Spyros who became a busboy at the old Planters Hotel. Soon they had enough money to fetch George. In 1912 they leased the Olympia Theatre in a cheap part of the city, made enough money to get Eldest Brother Demetrius. But the War held him back. Spyros then joined the aviation, Charles, the infantry, and George operated the few small theatres they had obtained. After the War the Brothers Skouras expanded and in 1928 sold most of their...
Last week the Finnish Diet gave the Finnish people what they had asked for in last month's prohibition referendum. On the assumption the voters wanted plenty of cheap liquor, the Diet established the following prices...
...quiet. She talks shop out of shop, also over the radio and from the lecture platform. Wide-awake, observant, she is a normal person with only a few such quaint fancies as Coca-Cola for breakfast. Unashamed of her age, she has on her stationery: "Established 1904." She likes cheap vaudeville as much as she dislikes tennis, bridge and other games. A graduate of Goucher College in Baltimore, she greets Manhattan moods with rapturous surprise, is convinced...