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Word: cheap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Motormaker Miller now has taken over the old Austin plant at Butler, Pa., where he is experimenting with a small, cheap car to be called the American Bantam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 2, 1936 | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...technical adultery required for divorce in England with a young woman nicknamed "Buttercup" at the fashionable resort of Maidenhead. A London florist revealed that the King sends Mrs. Simpson ?5 ($25) worth of long-stemmed red roses per day, or about 15 dozen in summer when they are cheap and five dozen daily in midwinter when they are dear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cinderella | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

Phillips Packing, having lost money-in spite of its cheap canned soup campaign-in the first quarter, cleared $143,706 in the second quarter, upped the figure to $861,365 for the third quarter. Boomed Soup-man Albanus Phillips in issuing his statement: "Please bear in mind . . . that I do not wish to commit the company to the issuance of quarterly statements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Black Ink | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

Aware that homing, even for pigeons, is an acquired impulse, it occurred to Hirsch Jacobs that few race horses know what horse races are for. Buying cheap, discarded beasts which, to his sharp eye, possessed potentialities of speed, he schooled them in the neglected fundamentals of their profession, as though winning were a kind of circus trick. Logical, the first thing Trainer Jacobs teaches horses is the start. Orthodox horsemen are frequently disconcerted when one of Mr. Jacobs' educated mounts streaks industriously away from the barrier before his rivals know a race is on. Trainer Jacobs' 146th winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pigeons to Platers | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

Currently, the Jacobs stables contain 60 horses. Forty are in active competition. The rest are learning the business at the Jacobs farm in Maryland. The majority of both groups are "platers" (cheap horses entered in races of which any entrant can be claimed by anyone for a price stated by its owner beforehand). Under Jacobs' management platers sometimes improve so rapidly as to be unrecognizable. Wonder horse of the season is a 7-year-old named Action. When Trainer Jacobs bought him for the customary $1,000 six months ago, Action was not only the cheapest kind of plater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pigeons to Platers | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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