Word: cheaper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Girl? The plot's pretty problem: Zdenka, younger sister in a penniless noble family, has been raised as a boy for economy's sake (a boy's upbringing is so much cheaper). But Zdenka has lost her unboyish heart to Sister Arabella's best beau, Matteo. Fortunately, Arabella falls for a handsome stranger and Zdenka lures Matteo to her room, leading him to believe he is getting Arabella. Since the handsome stranger overhears (and misunderstands) this plot, things look pretty bad for a while. Zdenka finally clears everything up by appearing as the woman she really...
...mined by the Frasch process, the cheapest method known. (Superheated water is pumped into the ground to liquefy the sulphur, which is then pumped to the surface.) Costs range from $7 to $20 per ton, as low as one-tenth the cost of other methods, and far cheaper than the world market price...
...tests, but with some significant differences: 1) they have developed a simplified technique of getting a stronger, faster-acting hormone preparation by using a chemical called kaolinalumina, which concentrates it from the urine; 2) they use a species of toad (Bufo americanus) as the test animal, because it is cheaper than other animals used and reacts quickly. Performed as early as ten days after suspected conception, the new test produces the reaction in as little as two hours...
...details of his every meal, blazed from the Rome front pages; his pretty wife was acclaimed as "gentilissima." But when Mendès sat down to talk over his European Arms Pool with Premier Scelba, he was less successful. His plan, he said, would make European arms production cheaper and more efficient by enabling each member of WEU to concentrate on those items it is best fitted to produce (The Netherlands, electronics; Britain, jet engines; Germany, explosives; France, fuselages). The Italians were polite but noncommittal...
...often far below the cost of picking up travel expenses for an entire company's sales force. Last week's show, for example, cost G.M. several hundred thousand dollars (including rental of 50 giant, mobile projectors that Halpern bought for $500,000). But it was much cheaper-and far less trouble-than trying to bring all the guests to Flint...