Word: cheaper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could ever achieve carpet status, Herr Schaffer added a crumb of posthumous comfort: flowers and wreaths, plus ribbons "in such quality suitable to the honor of the deceased," might be sent provided they cost no more than 40 marks ($10)-except of course, in summer, when flowers are cheaper. Then, according to Herr Schaffer, 30 marks at most will provide all the honor necessary...
...price of its 15-in. color sets from $1,000 to $495, will rebate $505 to those who have already bought sets, and in September will bring out a new 21-in. tube. CBS-Columbia will introduce its new 19-in. set this month; Philco is developing a cheaper and simpler picture tube that it claims will bring set prices down...
...plate." Besides, there lies beneath the fiscal quicksands some solid ground for the Italians to hope that their movie industry has a commercial if not an artistic future. The sound stages and their equipment are excellent, and Italian technicians are getting better with every picture. Labor is still much cheaper than Hollywood's, and production-distribution deals with France and West Germany have opened new markets to the Italian product; thus far, the Italian government's block on Hollywood dollars in Italy has restrained the U.S. industry from open reprisal against its rising rival in Rome...
...days, workers' ideas often fell on deaf executive ears, but in World War II, U.S. business had to learn to mine the gold in suggestion boxes. Confronted with manpower and material shortages, businessmen searched around for ways of doing things faster and cheaper, discovered that their own employees had many of the answers. In turn, workers found the suggestion box an ideal way to get ahead. Furthermore, for the first time, many workers found that they could talk as well as listen to the boss...
...said it could supply cheaper power by building new steam plants with Government money. The Administration held that even if TVA could do the job more cheaply, the Government should stay out of the steam-plant business as much as possible. Led by Senators from the TVA area, e.g., Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore and Alabama Democrat Lister Hill, public-power enthusiasts, mostly Democrats, sided with the TVA. They decided to fight for a rider on the AEC bill that would block the Eisenhower order...