Word: frugales
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...Secretary's Mirror. The best Secretary of Commerce since Herbert Hoover had been looking in a shaving mirror, generally with satisfaction, for close to half a century. At 62 he was a millionaire, but he still had the reputation of being a frugal man; he considered lavish official entertaining "a waste of money." He lived in a large brick house (rented) on cobbled O Street in fashionable Georgetown, waited on by two servants; he himself was apt as not to answer the door. He had never visited his neighbor, Secretary of State Dean Acheson; until a few weeks...
...total income coming from refrigerator sales, Amana feared that it might go broke if the bottom dropped out of the refrigerator market. And the expense of keeping up with high-powered competition ($300,000 to tool up for a new line) seemed like too much of a gamble to frugal German farmers...
...Frugal City. The Communist plan fell into several stages. Decentralization would not only move out "nonproducers" but shift factories to the interior, where they would be closer to food, raw materials and coal. What remained of Shanghai would be turned "inward," i.e., weaned away from dependence upon foreign trade...
...explained that the appeal for an additional $200,000 is due to higher costs and added". . . our earlier and consciously frugal estimate of the amount of additional endowment needed has proved inadequate. It is now believed that the operating deflect of the College for this fiscal year will run to approximately $35,000 despite the rigorous economics that have been in effect for the past three years...
...celebrate the prince's birth. In Sydney, Australia, a streetcar motorman chalked "It's a boy" in huge white letters along the sides of his tram, while Cremorne Hospital hoisted a diaper with red, white and blue streamers to the very top of its flagstaff. Frugal Edinburgh gave its pupils a half-holiday in honor of Elizabeth's blond, blue-eyed baby and an Aberdeen woman celebrated her 100th birthday with the wish that Britain's princeling might live to celebrate...