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...stark purpose of the Mellon Institute has been, since its origin in 1911, the hiring out of skilled chemists, physicists and engineers to industrialists who want to learn how 1) to cheapen their manufacturing costs, 2) to improve the attractiveness of their goods in quality, appearance or price, 3) to utilize waste products, 4) to invent new things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Research Factory | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

Major weakness of Clutch and Differential is his tendency to ride his theme so hard it becomes burlesque, to cheapen the wit of his stories with sophomoric horseplay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Motormania | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...present Socialist leaders have raised production costs so much that the only way to continue making profits is to pay French workers the "higher" wages they 'have won in "cheaper" money; 3) successive French regimes have operated with such enormous deficits in the last few years that .to cheapen the money in which this load of debt is owed is as good an idea in Paris as it has proved to be in Washington, London and Tokyo; 4) although there was still last week a 57% gold cover behind the French franc, whereas the legal requirement was only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Fallacy or Victory? | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...take these measures today. . . . "Other individuals are never satisfied. One of these, for example, belongs to a newly organized brain trust-not mine. He says that the only way to get full recovery -I wonder if he admits that we have had any recovery-is to lower prices by cheapening the costs of production. "Let us reduce that to plain English. You can cheapen the costs of industrial production by two methods. One is by the development of new machinery and new technique and by increasing employe efficiency. We do not discourage that. But do not dodge the fact that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Economics in Manhattan | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...gold brick. I think it will die out. It's too foolish to live. There are approximately ten million people eligible. At the late of $200 a month per person it would about to 24 billion a year, just about half the present income. It would cheapen our money, so that in a year's time the $200 a month would pay just about $30 rent and eventually the money wouldn't be worth anything. If we could get security that cheap, we would have had it ages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Governor Ely of Massachusetts Praises New Littauer School of Public Administration | 1/10/1936 | See Source »

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