Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minton undertook another form of press-baiting. To appear before his lobby committee, he summoned Maurice Vallee Reynolds, publisher of Rural Progress, a farm monthly edited by Glenn Frank, chairman of the Republican Party's Program Committee. Based on the throw-away theory that the meagre income from cheap paid circulation is not worth the money and effort involved in getting it, the 20-odd-page, tabloid-size Rural Progress is mailed free to some 2,000,000 country homes in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. Theoretically it depends for its income on advertising alone -just...
...rhythm, apparently are facilitating factors for several types of learning. Diserens found that music delays fatigue, speeds up voluntary activities, increases the extent of many muscular reflexes, reduces and changes suggestibility and alters the electrical conductivity of tissues." In other words (Playwright Noel Coward's) : "Extraordinary how potent cheap music...
...Hankow, China, where Japanese bombs have been making holes in Chinese air fields at a cost of $2,000 each, a wrinkled little Chinese offered airport officials the services of a "machine" that would fill up the holes cheap. His machine: shovels, picks, brooms, wheelbarrows, 5,000 coolies. His fee: 66? a hole...
Readers of a weekly like TIME expect facts. They prefer to have these presented with tact and dignity. They do not want cheap gossip and unsubstantiated information...
...protect home industry against cheap Italian tombstones. Parliament in 1932 placed a duty of 33⅓% on imports of stone and wood carving. That this tariff effectually kept foreign sculpture out of England, even for exhibition purposes, was something it took Parliament six years to discover and, last January, to amend. First to take advantage of the amendment was small, smart, grey-haired Peggy Guggenheim, daughter of the late copper Tycoon Benjamin Guggenheim and founder of a new London gallery cutely called "Guggenheim Jeune." For Guggenheim Jeune Director Peggy this month planned a knock-out exhibition of sculpture by Abstractionists...