Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Music advocated state music centres, suggested supporting them by a tax on baseball and other public sports. President Joseph N. Weber of the American Federation of Musicians seized the opportunity to flay "canned" music once more. His refrain: "There will be no incentive for young musicians if 200 cheap musicians in Hollywood can supply all the music necessary for 60,000 theatres...
...since August 1928, was said to be in the nature of a reward for producers who have cooperated in curtailing production, but it started reports that other fields will follow. In any case the ultimate effect will be to help the caster; markets, now suffering from the dumping of cheap California gasoline. Equally beneficial will be the court's decision, for, assured of its legality, other States are said to be ready to pass similar conservation laws...
...title- a gaudy pavilion with a waxen Hindu dummy in a glass case dispensing prophecies on pasteboard, and a lot of cumbersome crank machines showing moving pictures of stout ladies in their lingerie. On one side are hot dog and penny-pitch booths, on the other is a cheap photographer's studio. High above loom the mazy timbers of a scenic railway...
...hell first. ... Do you suppose I enjoyed seeing my life-work made trivial and ridiculous? I was an inventor ?it was my passion to use the tools of science for the service of mankind. I gave the world light?good light, cheap light. Is it my fault if they used it to outrage the beauty and peace of the night. ?to make a cheap bazaar out of every street and avenue, selling one another cigarettes and chewing gum at the rate of a million candlepower a minute? I gave them the phonograph, so that every man, woman...
...prohibition question, the gist of the matter is contained in clause 5. I believe that temperance can best be secured through the incidence of taxation. If liquors were very expensive and light wines very cheap, we should witness an extraordinary change in the habits of the population. Ellery Sedgwick...