Word: ruinous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cable it would be possible to "pipe" a televised program all over the U. S. A. T. & T. patented its cable, applied to the Federal Communications Commission for permission to install an experimental line between Manhattan and Philadelphia. Cinema executives objected, professing to see the fertile seed of a ruinous monopoly. The Commission decided that A. T. & T. might install the cable if it were made available to any competitor who might like to putter with it. The company hesitated, unwilling to dispense the fruit of its own labors. Last week A. T. & T. announced that no experimental line would...
Retired Admiral Okada was picked by Japan's great Elder Statesman Prince Saionji because he was just enough of a patriot to satisfy the fanatic Army & Navy, yet had enough common sense to make Japanese bankers & businessmen feel that they would not be crushed by utterly ruinous taxes to pay Japan's bills for the impractical, grandiose conquest of too much of China (TIME, July 16, 1934). Once in office Premier Okada yielded to the exhibitionist bug which bites so many Japanese. He let himself be photographed with the crazy old camera and the prim old garden plants...
...place as a mouse in the communion cup is $10,200 in the till of a church paper. Viewing the jury's verdict ruinous, Editor Shipler this month splashed an announcement of his predicament on The Churchman's front cover in place of the usual cut or table of contents. Editor & Publisher's Marlen Edwin Pew, good friend of Dr. Shipler, helped launch a money-raising drive. The Christian Century, exclaiming "This Shall Not Happen!'' devoted its lead editorial last week to the matter. And other religious papers fell in line, unanimously convinced that they...
...being reckless, and which betray efficient and complex sophistication. The interest which most Whitneys have in common is horse-racing. Theirs is the most important name on the U. S. turf but their stables are at once so well-managed and so large that a sport which is economically ruinous for people who attempt it less elaborately costs them almost nothing. Without being either dilettantes or intellectuals, Whitneys are rarely averse to making money or spending it on enterprises connected with the arts. Without being extravagant or foolhardy, they like to gamble with experiments...
...dollars in the hands of foreign nations wanting our cotton. This situation will get worse instead of better unless and until the American people are willing to accept greatly increased quantities of imports. There is no other way that I know of, short of giving our cotton away through ruinous prices or insecure loans, to regain our former volume of cotton exports. . . . I think it is clear that proposals for increasing exports through low prices would not compensate the cotton growing industry for the loss of income that would result to them from discarding or transforming the present program...