Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers the most active and pleasurable of the Reich's manifold organizations is the recreation-providing, culture-giving Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) Society. To 3,500,000 Italian workers membership in the Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro (National After-Work Organization) is a similar welcome means of getting cheap theatre and opera seats, cut-price vacations, inexpensive athletic facilities, free instruction in artistic and cultural studies...
Last week Germany showed that she had overplayed her unemployment solution, had actually created a labor shortage. Scheduled for immediate execution under the Four-Year Plan is the building of the Hermann Göring Iron Works, the production of cheap Volkswagen automobiles promised by Führer Hitler, the rebuilding of Berlin and Munich according to the Fuhrer's ambitious schemes. To provide labor for these and other purely Government projects, Field Marshal Göring, Four-Year Plan Commissioner, decreed a sensational labor conscription...
...this "round shouldered, thick-thighed" champion to give them their real money's worth? If the portrait is as foul as she says it is, the Public will be pleased; if it flatters her, the Public will be certain all this court to-do is just another cheap stunt to get cheaper publicity for her next movie, which is certain to be a flop. One of the Public...
...tens of millions taking surplus cotton, corn, hogs, tobacco, turpentine, etc., etc., off the market, why cannot it take off surplus garments? Especially when perhaps 17.000,000 citizens on Relief need clothes? Why shouldn't WPA buy $10,000,000 worth of men's and boys' cheap suits, distribute them to the needy and get Amalgamated Clothing Workers back to work, 30,000 or 40,000 of them in New York City alone...
...allocation of costs on TVA dams and reservoirs-between navigation, flood control, national defense, agriculture and power-Director Lilienthal tried to make TVA adopt the "byproduct" theory of power development, which would make the power look extremely cheap. "But for the power issue, the TVA dams never would have been built. To deny that is sheer hypocrisy . . . Mr. Lilienthal's byproduct theory is a subterfuge...