Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even Mr. Caddow, however, would maintain that a cheap young run-of-the-wine-press California claret is the equal of Château Mouton Rothschild 1929. What he does think and many sound wine critics concede is that in its class California wine does not have to bow to the snobbish claims of foreign wine. And even connoisseurs are no longer so outraged as they were once when they heard cheap foreign wines selling at $1 or so a bottle compared with California wine selling for $1 or so a gallon. In short much of the vin ordinaire...
...Great Britain there is yet no sign of any real abatement or check of activity. Here the production of capital goods, based upon the combination of Cheap Money and Confidence, remains at a high level. . . . But in view of the serious recession which has unquestionably occurred in America, and the severe shocks to confidence which have been administered, it would be unwise to anticipate any sustained [world] recovery...
Judge Cosgrave presently ruled upon the whole question of the suit: Had Herbert Fleishhacker damaged certain Lazard Freres heirs by selling certain oil lands belonging to them in Kern County, Calif, in 1915-17 for too cheap a price? Deciding that the answer was Yes, Judge Cosgrave ordered Herbert Fleishhacker to pay damages of $300,000. He then sent compliments to Lawyer Neylan for his handling of the case. Comparing himself to Emile Zola defending Dreyfus, Lawyer Neylan stormed back: "I am serving notice now on all those behind the present litigation against Mr. Fleishhacker that I am going...
...woolly-headed blacks, Oriental priests and court musicians (even by U. S. Indians, hillbillies and Negroes in the South and West) are already extinct. Causes of this high mortality rate: the phonograph and the radio. Primitive races find old-fashioned radio sets somewhat fragile for jungle use. But cheap, hand-cranked squeak-boxes with chipped records of American cowboy songs and Italian operas are found today in mud-walled villages from Timbuktu to Singapore. Impressed by this mechanical magic, natives imitate the scratchy voices, learn to sing Il Trovatore, and end by preferring it, for better or worse, to their...
...underworld radio show. One day four years ago several young matrons at the Women's Club in suburban Maplewood, N. J. fell to talking about this problem, a great worry to many a U. S. mother who has observed the intense preoccupation of U. S. moppets with the cheap and sensational entertainment provided for them by films, newspaper strips and particularly the radio. Said brown-haired, brown-eyed Mrs. Dorothy L. McFadden, mother of James & Jean and wife of James L. McFadden, export consultant and amateur sketcher: ''Why can't we produce decent entertainment ourselves...