Word: cheaper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That is an excellent piece on Edward Hopper, but I disagree that "the Hoppers go miles out of their way to get gas a fraction of a cent cheaper," as they buy some of it from me and not at cut-rate prices. Mrs. Hopper appreciates our clean rest rooms...
...Friendly Bean." The Hoppers go miles out of their way to get gas a fraction of a cent cheaper; they have never bought a new car. They eat out a great deal-at lunch counters. Yet they are open-handed with friends needing help, and on occasion they do spend folding money for themselves; e.g., Mrs. Hopper insists on her husband's wearing elegant sports clothes from Abercrombie & Fitch, though he complains that he doesn't "want to look like a damned hero." And when they bought their 1954 Buick, Hopper had the perfectly good green-tinted glass...
...months later. This is a crucial loss in the supersonic age: while it took only two men to check out the 24 electronic boxes in the older F86D, it requires ten to check the F102B's 210 electronic boxes. Private industry strongly believes that a smarter and cheaper way would be to let business do the job; the military should follow the trend in private business, where many firms no longer try to maintain such equipment as trucks or electronic machines, but rent the equipment, let outsiders maintain it. And though private wages are higher than service...
...Government to junk the present distribution system and substitute a food-stamp plan under which needy families would be provided with stamps that could be turned in for groceries at retail stores. Grocers would redeem the stamps with the Government. They argue that a stamp plan would be cheaper and make it easier to keep the cheaters out, but thus far, the Department of Agriculture has cast a cold eye on the plan, and Secretary Benson has called it "unfeasible." Chief reason: a stamp plan would not necessarily drain off major surplus items, might become a permanent relief measure...
...speculators on Toronto's Bay Street who had committed one of the mortal sins of speculation: they had been "caught short" in Chatco stock. They had sold thousands of shares of the stock in hopes that it would fall and they could pick it up later at a cheaper price for delivery to the buyer...