Word: cheaper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LIGNITE, a poor-heating cousin to coal, will get its first big U.S. industrial test as a cheaper substitute for water power and natural gas in generating electricity. Alcoa has just opened a $100 million aluminum smelting plant (capacity: 90,000 tons annually) near Austin, Texas, which will experiment with lignite from the state's abundant supplies as an exclusive source of power...
While a great increase in the number of resident tutors would be prohibitively expensive, a cheaper method for attracting instructors and professors to the Houses is available. An increase in the number of free meals allotted to non-resident tutors would draw men who now lunch at the Faculty Club. Through their acquaintance with House members, these non-residents would have a basis for meeting many students whom they never even see under the present system...
...builder a code of minimum standards that was not as stiff as the one governing public construction. With this flexibility, the private contractor was able to cut certain costs and build more cheaply than the government itself could. But even if private construction had not been quicker and cheaper than public building, which it was, the federal government would have been restrained on political grounds. A substantial part of the nation in 1941 felt that federal building meant slum clearance, and nothing more. The federal octopus was requested to keep out of middle priced building...
TRUCKERS have presented the Post Office with a plan they say will save $85 million a year by shifting all mail from railroads to trucks for distances up to 300 miles. They argue that trucks are faster, cheaper and more flexible. Postal authorities seemed unimpressed by the plan since most big post offices are geared to rail service, are not set up to handle heavy truck traffic...
Made of lacquered nylon, the wigs come in 144 varieties (twelve styles, twelve colors), are much cheaper than those made of real hair. Price: $165 a dozen...