Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could not get well started until next spring. So far the relief program had put only 800,000 persons to work, 500,000 of them in the CCC. Therefore from December to March most of Work Relief's loose change was going to Mr. Hopkins for his quick, small, cheap jobs?adding up to something like Mr. Hopkins' old "leaf-raking" CWA program. By March, declared the President, that program could be tapered off, and Mr. Ickes could get busy on whatever projects he had found before Dec. 15 which could be completed within a year, would cost no more...
Since beer is a cheap, bulky commodity, most breweries depend on a local market. Pfeiffer, which works at top speed to brew 400,000 bbl. a year, is more typical of the industry than Anheuser-Busch, Pabst or Schlitz. Pfeiffer's president is William George Breitmeyer, nephew of the German brewmaster who founded the company. Shy and laconic at his desk but jovial away from it, Brewer Breitmeyer has a simple explanation for his own success: "I have only one hobby. I collect friends." An aid in this hobby is his stock of old German drinking songs, inherited from...
...Government bureau in charge of coordinating all London transport lines within 30 miles of Charing Cross, has power over salaries, equipment, elimination of unneeded competition, establishment of new routes, etc., but leaves the actual management in private hands. Since the companies under its control gain cheap credit, stability, and profits proportionate to their value, the Board has been universally welcomed...
...public, but by the greed or the illusions of their inventors. An institution of this sort would acquire enough knowledge to prevent the organic and mental deterioration of civilized nations. Its members should be given a position as highly considered, as free from political intrigues and from cheap publicity, as that of the justices of the Supreme Court. Their importance would, in truth, be much greater than that of the jurists who watch over the Constitution. For they would be the defenders of the body and the soul of a great race in its tragic struggle against the blind sciences...
...load itself with theatre chains. It did not get itself heavily in debt. Such unusual wisdom in Hollywood was due chiefly to the frugal instincts of the Cohns. Brother Jack's early experiences filming Westerns in a woodsy spot on upper Manhattan Island convinced them that a cheap picture can be made to yield as high a boxoffice return as an expensive one. In 1920 they began their career on Hollywood's "Poverty Row'' with a series of shorts called The Hallroom Boys. Still pinching pennies, they followed that with Screen Snapshots, a particularly offensive scrapreel...