Word: cheapness
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...Canadian Governments are trying by pool operations to support the world price of wheat, and with some success, though at great cost. This action, this holding back, has made it easier for nations which are not holding back to jump in and sell their wheat. They are selling cheap, but not so cheap as they would have to sell if the U. S. and Canada were not holding back. Picturesquely last week Sam McKelvie barked (for the special benefit of Isidore Lubimov, the Soviet chief delegate): "We are not going to hold the umbrella for other countries forever...
Price, then, is the first baffling element in the wheat problem: How can one sell at all without selling cheap? How can one sell cheap without dumping? How can one dump without cruelty...
...sort of thing. And even among the most talked-of companies, the so-called big companies. ... I am not going to mention names of all of the companies in this room that have cut wages; I do not want to embarrass them; but I think it is a pretty cheap sort of business...
...Queen in a long, fur-trimmed cloak of gold lame, her silver hair surmounted by a diamond and emerald bandeau. "'Ooraw for 'is Majesty!" roared an oystermonger or perhaps a fishwife, and the cheer was on. Smokers then spontaneously knocked out their pipes, trod on their gaspers (cheap cigarets). "Pipe Lady May," whispered some to others. In the box with Their Majesties sat Lady May Cambridge (mentioned as George V's candidate for the hand of Edward of Wales) with her mother Princess Alice of Albany and her father the Earl of Athlone, brother of Queen Mary...
...considers England will not be normal again till a new generation has grown up. He divides his time between Manhattan and Paris, waiting for that day. Tall, fair-haired,, lumbering. Ford looks like a cartoonist's Englishman, speaks with a wheeze (he was gassed), wears baggy tweeds, smokes cheap French cigarets. He is a Roman Catholic. Other books: Some Do Not, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up, The Last Post...