Word: frugality
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...frugal hustler, he expanded until McLellan Stores was operating some 275 5?-to-$1 units throughout the land. Sales ranged as high as $24,000,000 a year, profits as high as $1,200,000. Then early in 1933 McLellan Stores went to the wall because the banks would not renew its loans. By last spring, when it was time to put McLellan Stores on the auction block, it was evident that the chainstore was still a moneymaker...
Suddenly at week's end frugal Yahya put his troublesome son behind him and sued for peace. Ibn Saud nailed home his conditions and declared an armistice. Hungrily his three armies halted in their tracks outside Sana. Britain, France and Italy waited anxiously to find out whether Yahya had lost his throne as well as his power and prestige...
...district from which he springs, Antelope Mountain, is poor and frugal; its people are poor and frugal also, and their poverty is as much spiritual as material. The old problem of outgrowing one's own people, and with them one's early love, has been presented by Mr. Fisher with great power. In Vridar the impact of a new life has not yet been resolved; part of him can never be of Antelope Mountain, and part of him can not belong to Neloa Doole, whom he goes back to marry in the end, but he is closer...
...Paris, France a Government clerk named Chazarin sued his wife for "connubial fraud," asserted that he had purchased a ticket in the national lottery for $6, won a $3,000 prize, discovered that frugal Mme Chazarin had sold his ticket to a baker...
Such an empty chair, thus illuminated, was to stand next to that of Toastmaster John Huston Finley at a large but frugal dinner in Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt this week. Throughout the land were to be other empty chairs at other dinners in behalf of Golden Rule Week. Their purpose is to put people in a mood for charity...