Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With cheap electric power here in this state and with the raw materials so close at hand, would our Eastern steel friends say that plants should be built in the East to supply the million or more tons of iron requirements on this Coast...
Topping the assorted items in TIME'S People department of Nov. 13 there is one concerning a certain Cornelia Otis Skinner, described as a "monologuist," who says: "Hollywood is cheap, it's tawdry, it's wicked. The people in power are so horrible that my friends, men and women who speak my language, are miserably unhappy there...
...good idea to put some millions of its enormous resources into buying a piece of Pullman Co. Pullman, No. 1 freight and passenger car builder, can produce 2,370 passenger cars a year, 74,700 freight cars. Conservative railroadmen shuddered, in spite of G. M.'s cheap financing aid, efficient engineering methods, at the idea that an automobile outsider should shoulder into the railroad aristocracy. To not so spry U. S. rail-engineering, it would hold out the promise of a good shaking up at the hands of a top-notch engineering organization...
...mine novelists shirk: namely, the ambiguous complexities of even the most "normal" motives and actions. These subtleties and minutiae are themselves the true substance of this story. Lacking entirely the brilliance of the best work in its field, lacking no less the textbook glibness of the cheap work, as a psychological novel, Believe the Heart is definitely to be respected...
...Advice for theatrical aspirants is pretty cheap," mused Lahr, "but there is no 'open sesame' which will produce success. A college education is by no means necessary for this success. Talent is a thing which you either have or you haven't, and that's what they pay off on. If you have it, your only problem is to find out what you can do best...