Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administration's left-wing is beginning to cause no small commotion over its plans and projects. All the doughty adherents of decentralization in industry are rallying around with drum and fife, eager to explore the possibilities of small units of production based on partial or complete use of the cheap electricity which the series of gigantic dams and power plants now constructed, under construction, or merely planned, are designed to furnish to the Valley. Blueprints have been laid out for the creation of model, attractive towns for the workers to be employed. Schemes for part-subsistence farming are buried about...
...dispirited were Professor Warren and the cheap dollar advocates. Some of them even suggested that big Manhattan banks might be dumping U. S. bonds to scare the Administration away from its gold-buying policy. Some of them were willing to let the price of Government bonds sink for a time. One fact everyone at the conference had to face: that last week confidence in the dollar had been badly shaken, the public if not scared had at least shivered. Result: a reaction toward "hard money...
...mass production, by which the manufacturer might stamp out standardized parts, bolt and weld them together as cheap automobiles are made. Director Vidal thought 10,000 planes would be mass enough. After stating his case he mailed a questionnaire to his 33,500 prospects, asked each to state if he would buy such a plane...
...volume of short stories, The Gentleman from San Francisco, in which the title-story is a grotesque fantasy of a rich American who voyages to Europe on a luxury liner, dies on the trip, and comes back a corpse on the same ship; the hero, a symbol of everything cheap in commercial civilization, is contrasted with the pitiless realities of sea and storm. Though he has a resounding reputation as a realist (his "big novel," The Village, is written in naturalistic, Chekhovian style) Author Bunin was once numbered among the symbolists, has also written and translated verse-notably Byron...
That the Board of health allows these things in this progressive age of cheap galvanized iron and readily available water supply is difficult to realize. But that the authorities of the College should permit their continuance is almost incredible. Cost, particularly when so slight, should not be allowed to stand in the way of public hygiene; the authorities have no excuse for not instituting a change within the year...