Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grand Condé Rose diamond that Louis XIV had given the due d'Enghien after the latter's victory over the Spanish Army at Rocroy in 1643. Chiappe took charge of the investigation but had little luck until a chambermaid named Suzanne Schlitz felt hungry in a cheap hotel on the Boulevard de Strasbourg. She bit into an apple lying on a table and broke her tooth on the Grand Conde. Within a few days Jean Chiappe had rounded up the entire gang...
...rice dispatched with utmost urgency to Havana. Mr. Welles had evidently told his White House friend that the danger of a Negro uprising and race-war in depression-ridden Cuba is real. If it can be bought off with $10,000,000 worth of dollar diplomacy the price seemed cheap to Washington. Having refused to lend a cent to feed hungry, rebellious Cubans until President Mendieta had been maneuvered in, President Roosevelt was credited throughout Latin America this week with a masterly piece of "invisible intervention...
...Commission charged, have long existed between Goodyear Tire & Rubber and the world's biggest mail order house. Sears, Roebuck (TIME, Oct. 30). Invoking the Clayton anti-trust laws and the ancient demons of discrimination, monopoly and secret rebates, the Commission attacked the contracts by which Goodyear makes cheap tires for Sears to sell under Sears' brand names. Last week's revelations...
...others of the Big Four tiremakers -Goodrich and U. S. Rubber-also manufacture special brands. But Firestone and most of the small companies regard the cheap tire as the chief source of the industry's woes. And last week many a tire man was sure that it was that embattled elder of the tire family, Harvey Samuel Firestone, who had egged the Government into Akron's Domestic Relations Court...
...England town of Sparta. But the things she has lived for-the family name, her brother, her father, the man she used to love-have failed her. She will be sorry to die but not unready. In 1930 the last of her idols falls. From his cheap French widow Sara hears the truth about her beloved brother: he was a wastrel who died a drunkard's death. In 1929 she sees for the last time the fiance who jilted her but with whom she has always been in love. A onetime ambassador now, a rich man of the world...