Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...system's potential electric power is harnessed. Only one Mississippi Valley farm in 16 is served by power lines. The Valley's present power map shows "a crazy patchwork of operating areas and a mass of independent, unrelated generating units." Remaking that map, the Committee would bring cheap electricity to every home by Federal coordination of all power transmission not only in the Valley but in the entire U. S. Lining up with the Roosevelt "yardstick" policy, the Committee was nonetheless careful to point out that such unification would not necessarily mean extension of Government ownership. It would...
...Corunna, brave but bereft. The Author looks like a British Richard Halliburton. An Oxonian, he once distinguished himself at rowing by upsetting the entire eight because he had stopped to look at a kingfisher. Now 26 and an advertising copywriter, he travels when he can, goes alone, stops at cheap hotels, loves Spain. Delay in the Sun, Author Thome's second novel, is the January choice of the Literary Guild...
...preparedness plans are based, to be tarred, feathered and crippled to make a publicity holiday for Senator Nye. They have sufficient difficulty in getting what they regard as adequate appropriations for themselves. From their standpoint, if foreign governments can be induced to buy U. S. arms, that is a cheap way of supporting the Army's and Navy's own arsenals: du Pont, Remington, Winchester, Colt, et al. In last week's Senate testimony it was brought out that Chief of Staff MacArthur in former years made speeches in the Near East to promote the sale of U. S. arms...
...premium. The capital may have a newer and swankier hotel, built between 1924 and 1929, but the farmers, the smalltown lawyers, the minor merchants who compose the bulk of State legislatures are not interested in swank. All they want for their short, frequent sessions is a cheap (about $1.50), convenient bed in a place where they can circulate from room to room swapping stories, dickering deals, playing poker...
...always extremely accurate, never went dry. His presence was a Godsend to correspondents who had to turn out daily conference stories whether the sessions were closed or open. That the world was flooded with press stories which did Great Britain's standing no harm seemed, at the time, a cheap price to pay for such daily assistance from the publishing peer...