Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capital of $500 and a small order from Woolworth's, selling paper-covered books for sixpence, has sold nearly 10,000,000 books. In the U. S. attempts to sell new books for less than $1 have come to grief in the past, and the newest and biggest cheap book venture, Modern Age Books, offering well-printed, well-edited new volumes on labor subjects, politics, economics, novels with a social slant and detective stories at 35? to 75?, is now being watched by old-line publishers to see if it can duplicate Penguin's success...
...years. From 1907 to 1913, as counsel for the people, he opposed the New Haven monopoly of New England transportation. As unpaid counsel for a policy holders' committee he learned enough about the Equitable Life Assurance Society in 1905 to persuade the Massachusetts Legislature to make provisions for cheap insurance issued through savings banks. The Brandeis insurance plan, started in one bank, now includes 24 and more than 100 agencies in other savings banks, trust companies and national banks, handles a total...
...great mass of law-abiding citizens, and the rising generation of young people to whom they wish to preach Americanism, it is time that they cleaned house among their members, demonstrated the principles of good citizenship at their annual conventions, and behaved less like a pack of cheap, booze-fighting roughnecks at their annual meetings. More than that, if they cannot and will not obey the laws of the country, and of common decency, how long are we going to let the regular law enforcement agencies sit back and condone their bawdy behavior...
...than a year. Because Diesel engines burn fuel oil instead of gasoline, because the oil is ignited not by electric sparks but by high compression (around 500 Ib. per sq. in.) which raises the temperature of air in the cylinder to about 1,000° F., they are: 1) cheap to operate. 2) heavy in order to withstand high pressure, 3) expensive to construct...
Reidy--Make it "unclothed" goal line. This is no cheap burlesque...