Word: priced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made of poor voices and incomprehensible enunciation. Many of the performers can act fairly well, but only a few of them speak intelligibly . . . There is such a thing yet (or is there?) as your money's worth; and moving figures mumbling quietly to themselves are not worth the price asked...
...filled with apprehension too when I look to management and see it choosing the costs of banked fires . . . rather than . . . re-examination of their practices of accounting and . . . price-making...
...when he arrived, accompanied only by his Secret Service shadows, he found himself at a formal banquet with 200 of the nation's top industrialists. Seated around him were Gwilym A. Price, president of the Westinghouse Electric Corp., Motion Picture Czar Eric Johnston, Arthur A. Frank, chairman of the board of Standard Railway Equipment Mfg. Co., and dozens of other high-powered and high-placed big businessmen...
...small and, in most cases, immediately needed for one thing or another. The $98,231 earned by the Houses goes to the Corporation to help pay for the initial construction outlay. The dining halls $17,079 surplus is but a small buffer, according to the University, against future food price fluctuations. And the Hygiene Department's $31,619 surplus could be wiped away by one big epidemic, officials claim...
...mixture of "the Mosque of St. Athanase, in Egypt," plus "the temple of Apollinop-olis at Etfou?" Cincinnati citizens, who watched it abuilding in 1829 didn't know what the devil it was-except that it was to be named "Trollope's Bazaar" and to supply high-priced fancy goods and foreign culture. But "every rogue within cheating distance" was working on it for the nutty British owner, 49-year-old Mrs. Frances Trollope. They were selling her bricks at three times the market price, laying "gas pipes" that conducted nothing but a steady flow...