Word: cheaper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite its iridescent charm and aura of good breeding, the miniature became a lost art with the advent of the cheaper, more accurate, less demanding photograph. In its presence, one expert ruefully noted, the miniature "was like a bird before a snake: it was fascinated-even to the fatal point of imitation-and then it was swallowed...
...lessee will also pay interest on the loans and a fee (usually ¼% to 2%, although some go as high as 6%) to the leasing company. Says National Equipment President R. L. Boothman: "We engineer the lease, we own the property, and we depreciate the property. Leasing is not cheaper than ownership-but it can be far more profitable...
...build somewhere around 1,600 classrooms a year, has actually built more than that since 1955. Says Governor Handley: "I am opposed to federal aid for the primary reason that we can take care of ourselves." Adds Superintendent Young: "We can do it better, we can do it cheaper, and surrender none of our rights in the process...
Into the Armco Steel Corp. plant at Houston this week rolled three carloads of iron smelted by a radical new process. Developed by a Hungarian-born inventor, Julius Madaras, and financed by Oilman Clint Murchison and others, the process eliminates the blast furnace and promises to smelt iron cheaper and faster...
...hearted scale, with the bushes around the varsity courts. They are dying as their roots are stretching out beyond their small ditchful of humus. A less natural but simpler suggestion would be to put up walls of canvas on the wire fence walls of the courts. This would be cheaper, even if it would require bracing the walls with a few guy wires or props. It would also eliminate the eye-confusing vistas of one wire fence behind another behind another...