Word: cheaper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doing their biggest export business in years. Even after U.S. Customs collected 37½? duty on every 100-lb. sack for the first million bushels of table potatoes and the first 2.5 million of seed potatoes and twice as much duty on all subsequent potatoes, the Canadian spuds were cheaper than the homegrown subsidized ones...
...Functional" Approach Cheaper...
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...poor again. For the second time in four months, they have jacked up the fare on Boston's one-lung transit system so that it now costs fifteen cents to go a mile and a half and catch a ball game at Braves Field. Hereafter, it would almost be cheaper to own a car, provided of course, you could find some place to park...
According to Harvey Hall, statistical engineer for the company, the use of oil was instituted last year for two reasons: (1) It is cheaper, on a dollar to BTU basis, than hard fuel: (2) "The company no longer is subjected to the whims of the miner's boss, John L. Lewis...