Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expect a total collapse of its economy by 1960." The whole Ulbricht philosophy of export-at-any-price, and of imposing impossible production goals upon industry, had led "to an economy of permanent crisis." The country was grievously short of raw materials, can not even depend on the cheap coal that Poland now sells to the West...
Bingo's overnight success fits right in with TV's new rage for parlor games, which are cheap to produce and pull in good ratings. This week NBC will replace its Arlene Francis Show with a new game called Dough-Re-Mi. CBS is planning to put on Win-Go instead of The Eve Arden Show, will switch from Dick and the Duchess to Lucky Dollar, is also grooming three other games...
Loyalties & Lozenges. The motive for all this activity is not entirely religious. Lourdes is a city of shops-some 400, most of them crammed with cheap religious souvenirs: bottles for carrying water from the grotto, alarm clocks that tinkle Ave Maria, cellophane bags of throat lozenges made from "Genuine Lourdes Water." The names on the shop fronts are aimed at special loyalties: "The Infant Jesus of Prague," "St. Laurence O'Toole" (proprietors Walsh & Douly). These highly competitive private enterprises have helped the city to an estimated income of 10 billion francs (almost $24 million) a year, a figure that...
...placed the University of Washington outside the community of scholars." The next year, citizens were shocked to learn that the regents had approved the use of the stadium for a professional football game, secretly designed to raise money to subsidize athletes. "It is fantastic," stormed one professor, "what a cheap price is put on 'education' at this school." Added another last week: "We've had an IBM-type administration, uncreative, and insensitive to what it is that attracts people to the academic life...
...Pacific Northwest, which is crying for more cheap electricity, a big bloc of voters believes that only the Government can afford the big dams the region wants. In the 1956 elections, the Republicans took a beating because of their partnership policy and stress on private power. Yet last week the Northwest was up in arms over a Federal Power Commission recommendation for a huge dam that probably only the Government could build. Reason: it would kill the fish Northwesterners love as much as kilowatts...