Word: cheapness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are cheap cardboard crèches, turned out by the thousands in busy factories, and there are others whose making is a joyful family tradition; one Madrid family lives in an apartment so small that their crèche completely fills it; they haul it up to the ceiling and sleep beneath. There are crèches in churches, in public squares, even in bars-a notable one is located in the English Bar in Nazareth...
...some light stuff suitable for topcoats. But the factory was already making winter overcoats with fur collars. Nichevo! We have to attach black fur collars to light topcoats. And the same thing happens with the collars as with the cloth. We use whatever they send us. We sew cheap fur onto an expensive overcoat." Result: there are 342 state "ateliers" in Moscow alone-not to mention myriads of moonlighting private "tailors" employing Russia's ancient talent with the needle-doing a roaring trade in tailoring and alterations...
...Kong. The British colony's factories and sweatshops have tripled to an estimated 500 in the past four years, boosted the number of workers from 4,000 to 50,000. To compete in the cut throat world textile market, the Hong Kong garmentmakers' chief weapon has been cheap labor; the average daily wage is $1.77 for a ten-to twelve-hour...
...sneak in through the West entrance and thus do not frighten undergraduates and their dates. This is a good thing because I would assume undergraduates still shudder at the prospect of becoming suburbanites involved in such pastimes as raising children and sitting in cheap seats at the Stadium. Bayley F. Mason...
...dealer then sold the oil to 25 cooking-oil merchants of Meknes, Fez and Casablanca, who posed as garage owners. The merchants mixed the bargain-price lubricating oil with olive oil in a 1-to-4 ratio that enabled them to boost by 75% their profit on the cheap cooking oil that the poorest Moroccan families use. Ready to cheat, if not perhaps intending what happened, the merchants did not know that the American lubricating oil contained an anti-corrosive additive (tri-ortho cresyl phosphate), two grams of which, taken orally, are enough to cause paralysis of arms and legs...