Word: cheapness
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...Power in Wall Street stops to chat with his favorite newsboy and lets fall a hint that such and such a stock is cheap at the current market price, the newsboy has what is known as a "sure thing." If the boy generously lets a traffic policeman in on the secret, he unburdens himself of a "hot tip." If the policeman hesitates to act on the tip, decides first to read How to Invest Money Wisely, by John Moody, he is given the benefit of "financial counsel...
With gleaming tusks, spotted skins, Africa lures the hunter. With savage tribes, brilliant plumage, exotic flowers, Africa calls to the explorer and the naturalist. But to the 20th century industrialist, eagerly scanning the world's wealth, the world's markets, Africa means first RAW MATERIALS, then CHEAP LABOR. Palm oil, extracted from the fruit of the African oil palm, the basis of many a soap, drew William Hesketh Lever to Africa in 1911 (see p. 17). More and more oil was needed for Lever Brothers' gigantic plant at Port Sunlight, England. The Congo held a vast, almost...
...invoke the muses before composing an epic. Poet Stephen Vincent Benét, however, narrowly and specifically invokes the "American Muse," by crying, "you are the buffalo-ghost, the broncho-ghost ... a friend, an enemy, a sacred hag with two oceans in her medicine bag . . . and you are . . . the cheap car parked by the station door. . . ." A brief prelude concerning the Yankee slaver that bears its black cargo of misery to America, and quickly the artist sets himself to the stupendous task of setting the panoramic scene, North and South. From every corner they come. In the South, Clay Wingate...
...this November. It is undoubtedly true that it is easier and cheaper to get out the vote in Presidential elections than in Senatorial. But if the current cost of Senate votes is no higher than $1 each, Presidential votes will have to be more than twice as easy and cheap if the major parties are to spend less than $15,000,000 between them...
...recent state primaries and elections, $1 per vote has been cheap indeed for the returns obtained. The unsuccessful campaign of George Wharton Pepper in Pennsylvania cost $3.69 per vote in 1926. The same year, in the same State, William B. Wilson spent 65c per vote for a Senate nomination for which he had no opposition...