Word: cheapness
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...propose to organize a corporation to operate a large cat ranch near McKee City, where land can be purchased cheap for that purpose...
...chunky little Welshman named Frederick Hall Thomas, who had used the name of Freddie Welsh because he was proud of his race, who was for three years (1914-17) lightweight boxing champion of the world, lay on his face on the bedroom floor of a cheap Manhattan hotel, last week. He was alone and he was dead. On his bed was a copy of a biography of Elbert Hubbard, opened at a page containing, among other passages, the sentence: "Get your happiness out of your work, or you will never know what happiness...
...Vacuum and Standard of New York state the truth, namely, that, as they fancy it pays them better to deal in cheap Russian oil, they do not care for the rest of the world and especially not for the American oil producers, as Vacuum looks upon the whole matter from the point of view that they are oil traders wishing to buy in the cheapest market and are not concerned with the American crude production? From an exclusively trading point of view this position only seems to be right, but it is a short view and the folly...
...Bank to lower its re-discount rate from 4% to 3½%. This means that banks of the Tenth (Kansas City) Federal Reserve District which belong to the system, can borrow money for 3½% and consequently can afford to loan money to individuals and concerns at a relatively cheap rate. The lowered rate will have one effect of helping the farmers of the Tenth District harvest and ship the season's crops advantageously...
...under conventional conditions.They would require a special theatre, a special ensemble, a special audience, a special period of time consecrated to their comprehension. To bring about possible conditions, he conceived the idea of building a theatre, specially dedicated to such productions as The Ring. He would build it of cheap boards, slap it up in a meadow, invite his artists and his audience, "and when all was ready, I would give three performances of Siegfried in one week; after the third the theatre would be pulled down and my score burned. To those who were pleased with it, I would...