Word: cheapness
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...Cheap silver (it sold last week at 27⅞? an ounce in Manhattan) is the basis of Mexico's money troubles. She must collect her taxes in silver, pay her foreign bills in gold. The Calles effort was to save all the gold possible for the government...
...learned how to pickle herring, a girl who was born in a Pennsylvania coal town and killed herself in Paris, a gold watch, a $50,000 messenger boy, the Tsar of Russia and the Wandering Jew. It began the day Lewis J. Selznick auctioned off the stock in his cheap Manhattan jewelry store and began wondering what to do next...
...Books cheap and dear, in leather, in paper, in boards, beautiful books and ugly ones, books to keep or to throw away are loaded daily in increasing lots upon a great U. S. public. Guardians of these truck- loads of print are the nation's librarians. Some think their duty is to furnish useful knowledge to all. But is it? Have they not already ruined the high aristocracy of thought in vulgarizing education? Should not a large part of the people-the simple, kindly folk-be left in ignorance so that they may carry on the world...
...pass into the hands of those who would devote it to cheap amusement." St. Louis. The "Muny Opera" of the Municipal Theatre Association of St. Louis opened its 13th season three weeks ago. Once devoted mainly to light opera- Gilbert & Sullivan, Johann Strauss, Franz Lehar et al.-it has acquired a revolving stage, a number of onetime Shubert musical comedy singers, and last year a Shubert director, Milton I., nephew of Producers Lee & Jake (TIME, June 9. 1930). Its productions are now more in the Broadway manner than in that of the Savoy or the Strauss-Theater (see below...
...Export of certain foodstuffs (tomatoes, rice, meat, etc.) from Spain was forbidden by decree. Reason: shrewd foreigners have been buying pesetas dirt cheap, using them to buy Spanish food dirt cheaper, thus depleting Spain of things to eat at an alarming rate...