Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is over $4½ billion of installment credit on the books now. If the lid is taken off, said he, the amount may easily reach "$17 billion by 1950." Families would go heavily into debt, he predicted, for goods that are not only highly priced but of inferior quality. A depression would cause so many defaults that the whole economy would be dragged further down, in much the way the top-heavy credit structure helped drag it down...
...archeologist; of an unknown disease that popular legend attributes to germs picked up in old Indian tombs; in Lima, Peru. Fellow experts often disagreed with dour little Tello's historical conclusions, but fellow Indians hailed him for his favorite one: that they are not members of an inferior race...
...approach makes even less sense than the removal of price controls did last year; for the present reluctance to buy is not based upon a surplus of goods but upon a surplus of the wrong kind of goods. Making liberal allowances for increased raw material and labor costs, the inferior merchandise dumped in the seller's market this past year has been priced completely out of line with any inherent quality...
...Chang Chun, being of inferior talent, is now given a very unsuitably tremendous burden and is afraid of his inability to shoulder it. Especially he fears he cannot perform his duties-even though he will use every exertion-due to difficulties confronting the nation and the heaviness of official work...
When war cut off materials needed for certain scents, the Guerlains, Pierre and Jacques, jealous of the house's 119-year-old reputation, stopped making them, rather than put out an inferior product. When bombers wiped out the Guerlain laboratory in the suburbs, they started mixing perfumes in the basement of their Champs-Elyseés shop. No one but Pierre and Jacques and their four sons knows how the scents are blended. The Guerlains do the work themselves, use girls only to bottle perfume. For months the perfumes were rationed and G.I.s used to line...