Word: cheaper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breeds even faster, making good nuclear fuel out of a blanket of inert uranium surrounding the reacting core. This breeding process is exciting to nuclear engineers because U-235 is scarce (only 0.7% of natural uranium) and will always be expensive. Plutonium made from U-238 may prove much cheaper...
...Apperson put together his first car in a little shop in Kokomo, Ind., later produced annually 1,500 cars (called Jackrabbits), prophesied in 1943: "When the American people are willing to sacrifice showing off, they'll get a lighter car built of light materials that will be cheaper...
...turned painter only seven years ago: "Painting as such has reached the end of its road. From now on, the human eye will be perfectly satisfied by seeing any color or shape, provided the color is brilliant and the shape imaginative. You won't get modern art any cheaper and certainly not any better...
Commuting is admitted to be a compromise between the ideal Harvard education and economic realities; some of the conveniences of undergraduate life are sacrificed for the sake of a cheaper education. But the sacrifices are not made because they are inherently desirable but to make the "economy model" education available. There is nothing attractive about sequestering the economically, socially, intellectually, and geographically narrow commuting body and putting it in a separate physical facility; but it is apparently necessary...
...native Phoenician who stopped his formal training in high school, Long learned an invaluable lesson soon after he began building: "It's easier and cheaper to do it yourself than to subcontract. And volume is the key to continued growth." Long hired his own crew, used every known labor-saving device, estimated his costs to the penny. In his first development, he built 134 houses for $7,400 each, cleared only about $350 on each. Then, in 1953, to take advantage of the 10% down payment introduced by Congress for $7,000-or-under houses during the Korean...