Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treaty at the I. L. O. conference last year was blocked when the British held out because India has now a textile week of about 60 hours. The Japanese held out because their textile week is nearly the same as India's, and they want to sell textiles cheap. The horse trade sought was to pin Japan down to 40 hours which would be considerably to Britain's general advantage provided Japan's price is not too high, for Japan will demand larger markets in the British possessions...
...London by Britain's No. 1 Jewish industrialist Lord Melchett. "Another slump like the last one-and I'm afraid we'd have civil war in Britain!" Melchett told of advising the Government to buy 300,000 tons of copper at Depression's dirt-cheap price of $150 per ton, remarked that the Government is now screaming for copper at $350 per ton, cannot find as much as it wants for rearmament...
...long bull market in bonds and the start of an inflationary stage in Recovery, the drop in Governments was followed by the shelving of half a dozen corporate bond offerings and a general tightening of sensitive short-term money rates. By any normal standard money was still ridiculously cheap but the up trend was unmistakable...
...yours m referring to a lady of prominent Virginia lineage, who is the acknowledged fiancee of the Duke of Windsor, makes highly unpardonable use of the word "mistress" [TIME, March 8.] Gentlemen, and Kings whether active or abdicated, do not marry "mistresses," and it is high time that the cheap tittle-tattle of the scurrilous should end. . . . There is a strong sentiment in England as there is here that both lady & lover have been treated in a most unchivalrous and dastardly manner both by Cads Clerical and Cads Temporal, and it is high time that fair play and a more...
...when Patrick Kennedy was born in East Boston, U. S. clippers were carrying 66% of the nation's trade. By 1888, when Pat Kennedy was running a saloon in and the politics of Boston's Ward 2, ironclad steamers manned with cheap labor had sent U. S. shipping to Davy Jones's locker and only 13% of U. S. foreign trade was being carried in U. S. bottoms. That year Pat Kennedy...