Word: shoestringing
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Next day the planemakers trooped to Washington to tell their story to Senator Owen Brewster's aviation subcommittee. Glenn Martin, short of cash, has been able to borrow only $3,000,000 from bankers. He has had to ask RFC for a $25,000,000 loan to keep operating...
Two months ago the Chinese Cultural Theater Group of Shanghai began a goodwill tour of the U.S. (they have already played San Francisco and Chicago, will next swing through the South) on a financial shoestring. The company left China with only $37,500 in cash and props, is now down...
"The Time, etc," embraces exactly the elements you invariably have to endure in these epic events from the California flicker factory the Broadway musical show produced on a shoestring, the leading lady stepping into and out of her big role, the in genus who was weaned on opera, the "name...
His new hero, Steve Canyon, would be a lean and squinty, older version of Terry; a fellow with an easy, insolent, Gary Cooperish grace that marked a breed of plainsmen, and airplanesmen. Canyon knew the world and its airlanes-and its women-as his granddaddy would have known the way...
But for the most part, Smithsonian scientists stuck to "description," that amiable super-hobby which leads learned men to scour the earth for rarities. Working always on a shoestring, they explored the West, dug up dinosaurs, collected insects, mollusks, birds, minerals.