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...some student he had seen scrubbing floors or waiting on tables. Then, with a curt "thank you," he would go back to his chair, or set off for his daily stroll. Old Smith was never known to buy any clothes and he always ate at the union cafeteria (the cheapest place on campus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Giveaway | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Customers, shelling out on the prospect that programs would improve before the novelty wore off, were going heaviest for table sets with 10-in. screens (most popular models: a $339.50 Philco, a $375 RCA). But the smaller 7-in. screen models, such as the $179.95 Motorola, the cheapest set, were right behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Teevee Pains | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...days after G.E.'s announcement, Teletone and Trav-ler put out their new $9.95 sets. Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp., the largest maker of small sets in the industry, came out with a 1948 list that showed some impressive price cuts. Its cheapest model was down 20% to $16.95; and it hoped to hold on to the middle-bracket market with a combination radio phonograph at $99.95 and a four-tube A.M.-P.M. set at $49.95 (almost a 50% cut from last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bargain Day | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...television business.* The big news came from Admiral Corp.'s hard-hitting President Ross D. Siragusa, who parlayed a backroom radio shop into the fourth biggest radio business in the country. Last week, he came out with a table television receiver (seven-inch screen), retailing at $169.95, the cheapest ever to go on sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bargain Day | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...Conway or Stowe tossing in a sleeping bag in the back of a truck with nothing for sustinence but the will to live and a case of Three Feathers. By this method a student can spend a holiday in the snow for less than half the price of the cheapest lodging...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hardy Ski Enthusiasts Can Curtail Vacation Expenses | 1/8/1948 | See Source »

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