Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Town Creek, Ala., and Joe Wheeler Dam. So full was the President of the TVA sights he had seen that by the time he reached Tupelo, Miss., he was moved to make an extemporaneous speech. Extolling the local citizenry for being the first to sign a contract for cheap TVA electricity for its municipal power system, the President observed...
...thought. One camp maintains that it will be the starting gun for an international inflation race and that commodities and stocks will rise abruptly. The other group holds that it will be a severe economic shock and result in declines because our favorable export trade is dependent on a cheap dollar, which will then be a thing of the past. Again you pay your money and take your pick...
Britain. British hotels also had a better year than last. With sterling cheap, tourist traffic was up 20,000 for the season, excluding the heavy week-end trade from normally stay-at-home gold-bloc countries like France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland. Visiting U. S. tourists remained twice as long as in previous years. Despite rate reductions to accommodate dollar travelers, the Savoy in London took in 35% more from room rent than...
Germany. Louis Adlon of Berlin's big Hotel Adlon was unable to attend the IHA conference. But German hotels have fared better than others on the Continent, largely because severe exchange restrictions have kept German tourists at home. It was also possible to buy cheap "registered marks" which could be spent only in Germany. More Frenchmen crossed the Rhine this season than in any year since the Retreat from Moscow...
...placing their plot on the broad back of a beguiling rascal named Asa ("Ace") Burdette (Fred Stone). "Ace" has been a fiery leader of "Jayhawkers," those bellicose sons of the Middle Border whose ropes, pitchforks and rifles kept Kansas abolitionist because they did not want the agricultural competition of cheap slave labor. A noted boozer, tobacco-chewer and wencher, sly "Ace" is first seen confessing his sins to a camp-meeting audience so he can mount the rostrum and persuade the good folk to elect him Kansas' first Senator in 1861. He is elected, goes thoroughly jingo when the first...