Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cruisers come high, go cheap. Last week the U. S. sold six old ones on the Pacific Coast for $275,927: the Albany, New Orleans, Salem, Charleston, Huron, Frederick. Abe Goldberg & Co. of Seattle got the Charleston for $49,111.60, a record low price. Conditions of sale: the ships are not to be used for naval purposes or as rum runners...
...Coolidge used to charge a fee, plus expenses, for such speeches. In May 1923, he asked and received $250 for a Memorial Day address to the United Patriotic Societies, Inc., at Bridgeport, Conn. This fee rose to plague him in the 1924 presidential campaign when Democrats denounced it as "cheap stuff," when Republicans insisted it was a "customary charge...
...stand as he recited differences of opinion between himself and Senator King which led to their breach. In Manhattan, Mr. Metz confirmed the two contributions, remarked: "The revelations are amusing to me. . . . If senators can be bought for $1,000, all I can say is that they are damn cheap...
Highly pleased by these suggestions, rich but frugal Privy Councilor Mizumachi proceeded to marry his daughter on the cheap. Last week they were honeymooning at a Japanese inn rated as third class...
...seemed object No. 2, for from California's wells have oozed troubles which have spread over the entire industry. In an attempt to eliminate overproduction by forcing independent operators to limit their output, Standard of California began cutting crude oil prices, sent great quantities of gasoline east as cheap as 6 cents a gallon in shipload lots. To meet this new level in the price of petroleum products, Standard of New Jersey through two subsidiaries* cut crude prices from 19? to 41? a barrel...