Word: cheapness
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Puzzling servant girls; patient schoolboys, chinless sodawater clerks; burly salespersons all want that $1,000. Dirt cheap publications which they read offer them riches. Scarlet billboards proffer fortunes. Solve a puzzle. Win a trip to Europe, or an automobile, or a set of dishes or that...
...Federal Reserve Board has had two effects: 1) to cause U. S. capitalists to send gold out of the country to foreign countries where a higher yield is possible; 2) to cause foreign borrowers to come here and take gold credit out of the U. S. where it is cheap. In either case the gold is going...
...question: they are disgusting, vulgar,--they are nauseating. They only excuse for their presence is the laughter which they might evoke. And this fall, the climax of several years of increasingly disagreeable spectacles, even the opportunity for that excuse has disappeared. Never, not even in the cheapest of cheap vaudeville houses, has the public--the general public in and around Harvard Square and the University public--been offended with such common antics, more suitable to Moronia than a supposedly intelligent community...
...major farm commodities have been prepared monthly for two years by his Department to help farmers anticipate the future. Secretary Jardine thought that the cotton speculators had been "unduly disturbed," and wondered why they had not become excited last month when the cotton forecast of Aug. 15 explicitly predicted cheap cotton "in the immediate future...
...Food in Russia is very cheap. Clothing is expensive, but prices are gradually diminishing...