Word: cheapness
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...corporation director Mr. Murphy believed that "more serious damage is being done today than would be done if we restored the free and cheap use of beer." The only person he knew of who had stopped drinking under the 18th Amendment was "a very elderly maiden lady who has Prohibition tied up with her antipathy to the Catholic Church." (Mr. Murphy is a Protestant...
...with designs of her own. Among the most expensive in Paris, her shoes were immediately successful: for a while she was manager, packer, messenger, saleswoman; soon she had two factories in France, a small mauve-and-gold shop in Paris, a wholesale branch in New York. Her sandalmakers are cheap, her sales force is on commission; with small overhead, she has been making gross sales of $150,000 a year...
...past four months the Chinese have given us little if any cooperation and the service has grown increasingly difficult, as obstacles have been created regarding landing fields and anchorages for the Loening amphibian planes which we use. The company has overlooked these difficulties in its desire to provide a cheap and efficient air line in China. We have already spent $500,000 in gold on the service and our final loss is very likely to be greater than that...
...rubber is garnered mainly from wild trees, carried through jungle paths. In the Far East and Middle East the business is much more highly organized. To handle the product roads have been built, heavy trucks imported; railroad tracks have been laid. The only primitive factor remaining is the labor-cheap labor that can be bought for about 30? a day. Loinclothed natives do most of the work. They slit the rubber tree's bark, gather the soft flowing latex, load it into tank cars. This type of worker has no pride in his job, nor does he become devoted...
...except for being a little more galvanically lively than the ordinary, his is a story that tells much about Manhattan, about the hundreds of thousands of Manhattanites he represents. He works because he has to, in order to have fun-also because he has to. His fun may seem cheap to you; it was expensive to him. One night cost him most of a week's pay; taking a lunch-counter waitress to the cinema, then a round of speakeasies, taxis, dancing, drunkenness, a fight; home again in the subway to catch two hours' sleep before the office...