Word: cheapening
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...easy to be jocose in dealing with our ancestors. But the biographer who is persistently jocose is more likely to cheapen himself than entertain his readers. "Count Rumford of Massachusetts" is the life of a brilliant and eccentric cosmopolitan figure in eighteenth century politics, science, and society. Yet Mr. Thompson seems far more bent in his book on playfully pointing out the quaint ways of our forebears in that remote age than on giving us a true picture of his subject. Perhaps no one else who has ever really read a book printed before 1800 has been amused...
...invading the small-unit air conditioning field, Chrysler Motors was following the lead of General Motors whose Frigidaire air conditioner was put on the market eight years ago. Chrysler's plan is to cheapen cost and price by mass production, by simplifying the mechanics of the unit. Today a homeowner or office manager looking for air conditioners has a score or more to choose from. Frigidaire's unit, which has a refrigeration capacity of three-eighths of a ton, sells for $340 including condenser but without installation. This year Frigidaire has an air conditioned house at the Chicago Fair. General...
...French editors, long used to Marxian proposals for a capital levy or seizure of prosperous people's wealth, President Roosevelt's devaluation move seemed precisely that. They concluded that his 40% to 50% devaluation of the dollars in every U. S. citizen's pocket will so cheapen the U. S. national debt that in "real money" it will be less under President Roosevelt this year than it was under President Hoover...
Such a situation churned Congress to fresh confusion. All last week the Senate was deadlocked by a filibuster, the mainspring of which was debt relief through currency expansion (see p. 12). Idaho's Borah had a plan to "cheapen the dollar." Oklahoma's Thomas called for "reflation-or revolution." Into the hopper poured bill after bill proposing a widening of R. F. C. relief to debtors, even to the point of paying their back taxes. In the House 30 Representatives put themselves behind a bill by Mississippi's Busby to issue...
...half-dozen allied concerns. Brother Augustin Jay Powers, president, has currently been functioning as publicity man for New York City Democrats. Brother John Michael Powers is the financial man of the three. Brother Frank Thomas Powers, 50, is the tinkerer. Four years ago Tinkerer Frank Powers, to cheapen production costs in the Powers plants, which use thousands of photographs and rods of photographic printing paper, mechanized photography. He perfected a process of making photographic paper in long rolls similar to wrapping paper, invented a device to snip off lengths of paper as they were exposed, send them to a developing...