Word: cheapness
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...heavy replacement orders through obsolescence, at least for the present.* Astute manufacturers began to look for new markets, studied the private-flyer field. Last year it was apparent that they will attempt to make 1931 a "light-plane year," with planes priced up to $2,000, easy, safe and cheap to operate, attractive to beginners...
...liberty and sanctity of the home"; 3) "High-handed methods, shootings and killings . . . public expressions [by Drys] approving killings and promiscuous shootings and lawless raids"; 4) Politics; 5) Popular knowledge that "the wealthy are able to procure pure liquor while those with less means must put up with cheap, crude, deleterious products...
...might have married her, but Ray was not that kind. Instead she starved herself to send money to an impoverished niece, and tried to make ends meet by playing the races. She got to be a well-known figure at the tracks but made no killing. Retired to a cheap French pension she outlived her poodle Babe, but not for long. The Author. Hearty Fannie Hurst (Mrs. Jacques S. Danielson) loves words like "thigh" and "sausage." Born in Hamilton, Ohio (near Cincinnati) 41 years ago, she grew up in St. Louis, now lives in Manhattan. Never destitute, she has acted...
Rosa Helen Ricchebuono, French-Canadian sister of a nun and two Catholic priests, lived obscurely with her hard-working husband Bernard in a cheap flat on Manhattan's dark, noisy Third Avenue, near 43rd Street. When Bernard would go out evenings to solicit insurance, big, broad-faced Rosa would wave a loving farewell to him from the window. One stifling summer night last year Bernard had gone out and Rosa, after a bath, was puttering about her kitchen in a loose gown. Through the open door strode a great, bullish...
...million lei is roughly $12,000. At this price the funeral was dirt cheap- consisting as it did of three special railway trains with dining cars attached and an entire series of funeral services, one at each city en route with final honors at Bucharest...