Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost a monopoly in its chosen field. There is plenty of nickel in the earth's surface, but it is only in the Sudbury ore that ample supplies of pure nickel can be cheaply extracted from the other elements found in company with it. Even at Sudbury, "cheap" is a relative term, for nickel sells at about 35? per lb., compared with aluminum at 20?, copper at 9?, steel at 2?. Other useful ingredients in Sudbury ore are copper, platinum, gold and silver. Roughly speaking, a ton of Sudbury ore yields 95 lb. of copper, 47 lb. of nickel...
...waterpower tunnel was begun at Gauley Bridge along the forest-fringed New River in southern West Virginia, with cheap transient labor, black and white, from mountain districts as far away as Georgia. The tunnel went through white sandstone and quartz which were 99% pure silica. Every blast of dynamite puffed deadly silica dust down the throats of sappers who wore no protective masks over their mouths & noses. Rapidly men began to die of silicosis, pneumonia and tuberculosis. When workmen refused to go into the tunnel heads, foremen, according to subsequent court testimony, often clubbed them on. But the foremen dutifully...
Said Editor Yewdale: "We declined the gift because it was an insult; every clerk in the place got $2.50. In other words, it was too damn cheap, too damn low. It was an insult, not a gift...
...last year, only needed one further accolade--a Boston ban. We can only hope that some reburb, whose authorities do not regard intellectual freedom as a curse, will receive the step-child graciously, as it deserves. Meanwhile Boston can find its pleasure elsewhere, in flourishing burlesque houses, in cheap movies, in dismal "dives...
...this week. Costs must be paid by the County of Surrey because in that unfortunate vicinity hell-raising Edward Southwell Russell, 28, the 26th Baron de Clifford, a descendant of one of William the Conqueror's knights, was driving his supercharged sports car when it collided with the cheap four-seater of one Douglas George Hopkins who was killed...