Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Waterfront riffraff and cheap gangsters of all nations, plus open and tawdry vice, are typical of famed Marseille, but so too is the soaring, indomitable spirit of its sunny French citizens. The true Marseillais is bold, humorous, boastful and greathearted. Last week stout, jovial, bearded Louis Frichet, one of the most popular citizens of jostling, neighborly Marseille, became the hero of a holocaust which made news the world around...
Last week Kamâl Atatürk, having long suffered from a hard, dissolute, energetic life, had again fooled the doctors who have often warned him that nights spent in bars, cheap night clubs and bordellos would mean death. He was said to be out of danger, and the celebration became more a tribute to Turkey's first and, so far, only President than to the Republic itself...
...belated entrant and cheap plater in the world's newest race to rearm, which the Munich deal starting gun set off month ago, is the little Latin American republic of Panama. Disturbed because neighboring Costa Rica suddenly abandoned plans to ratify a pact settling a long-disputed 150-mile border between the two States, Panama's President, Dr. Juan Demostenes Arosemena, last week signed a hurriedly drafted bill providing $1,000,000 for national defense. Hitherto, defense has been an unknown item in Panama's budget. Most of the money will be used to fortify the northern...
...which the companies can compensate in only three ways: 1) finding improved investment opportunities elsewhere; 2) raising premiums; 3) cutting dividends. All forms of investment, however, are producing a smaller return these days as a result of the cramped U. S. capital market and the New Deal's cheap-money policies. The reduction in loan rates, therefore, is only one of several factors squeezing insurance company income. Under the circumstances the companies feel they have little choice...
...Remember (RKO Radio). The idea that good pictures cost more than bad ones is so firmly rooted in the Hollywood subconscious that when a producer contrives to make a cheap picture which is also good, it occasions an almost panic confusion. Thus when, in A Man to Remember, Producer Robert Sisk and Director Garson Kanin turned out a film which, although budgeted for only $119,000 and made in 15 days, was unmistakably well above average A picture quality, RKO scarcely knew what to make of the situation. Finally the publicity department hit on a scheme. Instead of inviting critics...