Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Forest in Southern California. But 50 gallons of water weigh 416 Ib. Hauling that much weight, plus a pump and its power unit, over a mountain trail is slow work. Gasoline pumps are convenient but heavy. Forester Everts hit upon a source of power that is light and cheap as well as convenient. He tried frozen carbon dioxide...
...action to stabilize the egg market. Responsible for both was Henry Agard Wallace's Surplus Commodities Corp., an AAAffiliate. Most important natural factor in determining the price of eggs is the laying behavior of the hen. In spring, the big egg-laying season, eggs are ordinarily plentiful and cheap. In autumn and winter, hens are less productive, more storage eggs are sold, egg prices rise...
...nightworkers that is old stuff. But ir New York City it is noise, more than light which kills sleep. So some of us have learned tc sleep with rubber swimming plugs in our ears They are highly effective, cheap and not uncomfortable at all. Try them...
...More than cheap power is at stake; a new element of democratic decency can be introduced into public life. The sovereign government is under obligation not to make capricious or arbitrary use of its power but to act with restraint and fairness and without a spirit of retaliation. But what if the power companies reject such an approach? . . . Public authorities should not give up any powers of compulsion until a reasonable process of solution has been worked out and well established. . . . But the utilities have a right to know what it is that is asked of them and what...
...other volumes of this American Writers Series, an adequate criticism and biography is included with an extensive bibliography. The works of about 15 authors have now been published in this cheap but extremely valuable edition and about ten more volumes are now being prepared. They may be recommended to any who would like a ready reference to the important works of American writers without the great expense of many volumes on each...