Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bona fide surplus, there is an implied right to sell the surplus. I get the idea from the proof . . . that the [TVA] directors have not arranged to dispose of any surplus of that kind but have treated all power as surplus either to show by example how cheap power can be made by the Government or in connection with its experiments for other purposes in the Valley...
...revolution was launched by one Rufus Lenois Patterson, seventh son of an impoverished North Carolina lawyer-planter. About 1919, after 20 years of grief, he perfected a cigar machine which cut, rolled and wrapped the leaves, made the cheap cigar profitable to produce. In 1921 about 30% of the 6,726,000,000 cigars consumed sold at 5? or less. In 1933, the proportion had jumped to 85%. This stupendous gain was made in spite of the fact that cigarets and Depression had cut total cigar consumption to new lows. Nickel cigars had simply profited at the expense of higher...
...House authorities have accepted the principle that the cheaper rooms should be allotted according to the ability to pay of the prospective inhabitant. Those who apply for cheap rooms should be given the same treatment as candidates for scholarships. Certainly the whole affair should be above-board. There is no need of a contest in bluffing...
...hrer's heart- that Great Heart so much publicized in the Reich-yearns to give little cars to little men such as he once was. Facing the silk-hatted Corps Diplomatique almost defiantly, Herr Hitler fairly roared: "We are going to solve the problem of the cheap car BECAUSE WE MUST! I rejoice that one of our leading constructors has devised a car which will cost no more than a medium-priced motorcycle. Its consumption of fuel, Meine Herren, will be the least imaginable...
...jazz--now everything is gin and jazz. Why, even fourteen-year-olds go out and drink cheap liquor these days. I guess the Dionne quintuplets are about the only innocents left, but I don't know...