Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...European boom that refused to bust during the U.S.'s recession months is now threatened by a downturn. Across the Pacific, Red China, out to dominate Asia politically and economically, has declared open economic war on Japan, perfecting an art in which the Japanese themselves once excelled: dumping cheap goods onto Southeast Asian markets. The deep-running courses of these economic tides are analyzed in FOREIGN NEWS: Threat of Recession and Squeeze from Peking...
Japan has long since lost the markets, the raw materials and the steel mills of Manchuria. And though Japan still thrives on cheap labor, wages have risen. Japanese heavy industry is plagued by high costs because of its dependence on imported raw materials. In the battle for Southeast Asia's markets, the Japanese must still fight the resentments incurred in World War II. The Japanese hope: financial help from...
...action, laid in a cheap lower Manhattan hotel room in 1907, centers about a down-and-out teacher (played by Mason) with a craving for the adventure and glamour of show biz; his wife (portrayed by Mason's wife Pamela), who wants him to settle down in "the little white house" and security of a teaching position on Staten Island; and their shockingly precocious nine-year-old daughter (winningly played by the Masons' own daughter Portland...
...Real Estate Millionaire Goldfine, Adams' friend and benefactor. That done, the Administration was stuck with whatever Goldfine might really turn out to be. What Bernard Goldfine turned out to be in his testimony last week before the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight (see Investigations) was a cheap and devious character-a fast man with a buck, whether to manipulate the financial fortunes of his numerous mills and real estate holdings or to distribute gifts to public employees, mostly little, who might do him some good in his chronic run-ins with Government...
...Industries using cheap St. Lawrence power are going up to provide 2,000 new jobs in Massena...