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...This country has the best, the most extensive, the most widely used and the cheapest telephone service in the world. In spite of this, it would appear that fault has been found with almost everything this company has done throughout its existence. This just does not make sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Faults Found | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

Last week rubber was selling at 10.31? on the New York Commodity Exchange, cheapest price in three years. Yet to appear was any sign of industrial revival sufficient to bounce rubber up again. But the I. R. R. C.'s 1934 agreement on planting bases expires this year. So the I. R. R. C. again met in London last week, this time to establish not only the export quota for the next three months, but a new planting limit. Recognizing the present slump, I. R. R. C. set the quarterly quota at 60%. Optimistic for the long pull, however...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Optimistic Rubber | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...room rate. By all means they should decide beforehand exactly how much they can pay, and those who can afford high-priced rooms should resolve to set a high limit out of fairness to the men able to afford only the lowest-priced. Freshmen who must ask for the cheapest accommodations ought not to feel discouraged, as House Masters will take their finances into consideration. Once an applicant commits himself on a price limit, he is bound, unless he can provide an extraordinary excuse, to pay the same rate or higher in his Junior and Senior years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT EVERY FRESHMAN SHOULD KNOW | 3/2/1938 | See Source »

...Nazi-built superspeed highways (Autobahnen). On them British Minister of Transport Leslie Burgin was recently driven for some hours at an average speed of 89 m.p.h. "We have the best motor roads in the world!" cried the Führer, opening the 1938 show. "Soon we will build the cheapest car in the world!"This car, the famed Volkswagen or "people's car," often referred to in Nazi electioneering speeches, has been under development by German engineers since 1933, and the Führer has several times voiced his impatience with their slowness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Automotive Politics | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...most obvious aspects of saving money is minimizing living expenses while commanding as high a wage as possible. The cheapest place to live is usually at home, even if you pay for board and laundry as much as five or six dollars a week. Away from home, twelve to fifteen dollars will be necessary...

Author: By Donald H. Moyer, | Title: Placement Office Is Only for Career Seekers, Not Temporary Job Hunters | 1/18/1938 | See Source »

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