Word: cheaper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House seem inferior in the eyes of the undergraduate. Obviously, it could not be so plush as, for example, Lowell, from its very conception designed as the keystone of the system. But there are ways in which significant savings could be made without any sacrifice of appearance or comfort. Cheaper, equally attractive materials could take the place of wood paneling in rooms, the dining hall, and the library...
Foreign businessmen also feel that the American market is unpredictable and fickle. At home, customers are faithful to their traditional suppliers; the European producer is aghast at the casualness with which the American consumer is ready to leave one supplier for another who comes along with something brighter, cheaper-or better...
...company, once the biggest in the aircraft industry, had been forced to shut down 16 of its 19 engine, propeller and airframe plants. Last week Hurley demonstrated what he meant by price tags; in Curtiss-Wright's Wood-Ridge, N.J. engine plant, he showed off a faster and cheaper way of making engines by means of a new "automated" assembly line, the most advanced in the aircraft industry...
...hours by inexperienced labor, using tin roofs and asbestos-board walls on a Dexion frame. Comino believes that he could sell it profitably in England for only $850. Using such native materials as wood, adobe brick or stone in backward areas, Comino believes that it would be even cheaper...
Yesterday, Miss Ruth Porritt, head librarian, set up the numbering system which will be considerably cheaper than the time clock method...