Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lilienthal is a young lawyer, a former associate of Donald Richberg, with a background of fighting Wisconsin utility companies as a member of the La Follettes' Public Service Commission. The Great TVA Schism, boiled down to its essentials, means simply that Powerman Lilienthal, whose chief interest is selling cheap power, and Engineer Morgan, who disapproves of the constant struggling with utility companies which this entails, look at TVA from different angles and are equally uncompromising. Because Harcourt Morgan agrees with David Lilienthal, practical result has been a constant 2-to-1 collision on the Board, which has led Chairman...
...bass player) who went to Hollywood as a designer, returned to the smalltime bands with an itch to make drawings of them. The results were so deep-scarred with authenticity that swing musicians in Chicago last week had them tacked over their beds. Included: a jam session in a cheap hotel room; a street-corner scene of jobless musicians; the interior of the Orange Blossom in Kansas City, one of the midwestern barrel houses where swing flourishes rankly. In this lithograph, The Student (see cut, p. 39), Artist von Physter showed " a white dog named Gunk" at the saxophone learning...
...final injustice, TIME quotes one critic as saying the paper upon which they are printed is cheap-an error of fact...
...number of its prints are worthwhile reproductions. In an effort to give representative selection of painters some pictures were included which apparently could not be reproduced with artistic fidelity by this particular process in its present stage; others whose reproduction required a meticulousness not feasible in the circumstances. Not cheap is the paper used but of good quality, chosen after tests to find the best paper for the purpose...
...past two years and who has seen that it has so far taken losses on just 1/1,000% of all business done, observed with customary enthusiasm: "Fifty million dollars worth of building will feel the steam shovels Monday morning!" FHA Administrator McDonald, a onetime motormaker who produced the first cheap, goodlooking car (Moon, Diana), has already done his part. He built himself a house at Palm Beach this winter...