Word: cheaper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...change does not mean a retreat from state control. In enlarging the collectives and assigning them their own machinery, Khrushchev is actually making them more like the big state farms, the "factories on the land," which he favors as cheaper producers of foodstuffs. Thus he brings nearer the day when all Russia's crops can be tilled and harvested by workers paid by the hour like any other factory hands...
...throats of the buying public. They are too big, too fast, too powerful. They are rapidly making obsolete our highways and endangering life and limb, and are enormously wasteful of raw materials" that should be saved for national security. "Unless American manufacturers meet the public demand for smaller, cheaper cars, European imports will take over a steadily increasing share of the domestic market, with serious effects upon employment in American automobile plants...
RUST-FREE BARBED WIRE, coated with aluminum, will be brought out by U.S. Steel Corp., an answer to cheaper foreign imports, which have won 50% of $19 million-a-year domestic market...
STRIPPED-DOWN MERCURY, to be named the Medalist, will be brought out by Ford Motor Co. this month to buck increasing sales competition from fancier models of the low-priced three. Suggested list prices: $2,324 for two-door sedan, $2,390 for four-door-about $100 cheaper than lowest-priced Mercury models now on sale, and less than Ford Fairlane...
...combo called "The Academic Cats," and San Francisco Christmas shoppers are currently being assaulted by the excruciating street-corner sounds made by nine businessmen in "vaguely Franco-Prussian uniforms" who bill themselves as the "Guckenheimer Sour Kraut Band" ("We take out our animosities this way; it's cheaper and more fun than psychiatry...