Word: cheapness
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...lads amuse themselves throwing rocks, shooting craps, fighting gang against gang with clubs, stones, bottles, telling jokes, holding a section of street against invasion by a rival gang, stealing, cop-baiting, hanging around poolrooms, attending cheap cinema shows, begging pennies, playing poker, drinking liquor, accepting the solicitations of older uptown girls...
...city of the South. The Age-Herald gave its encouragement to the early iron-and-steelmongers who tried and failed, and tried again and again to make good metal from the sulphurous mountain ore and sell it profitably. It helped educate Birmingham out of its suicidal policy of selling cheap pig iron to northern manufacturers. The U. S. Steel Corp. put George Gordon Crawford in as 38-year-old president of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. with the cheery news that he was like "a man who, having a millstone hung about his neck, has been thrown into...
...rather to be decried that such letters are sometimes written by undergraduates, but it is a serious reflection upon the character moulding influence of our college when a graduate of fourteen years standing offers such a piece of cheap vulgarity...
...does not want to step on your foot," said General Motors' Chairman Pierre S. duPont to Henry Ford in 1921, according to onetime Ford Sales Manager Norval A. Hawkins. Salesman Hawkins testified further: "Mr. duPont knew that if Mr. Ford wanted to he could sell his car so cheap as to make Chevrolet high priced." In 1912 the Ford company could have sold cars at cost and still earned $1,325,000 or 66% on its then capitalization of $2,000,000. Today the company can sell cars at cost and profit from the sale of parts...
...consideration reported as $60,000. Tristram Speaker, onetime Cleveland manager and star, had just signed with the Washington Senators for a consideration reported as $50,000. Since these two players, admittedly in the late twilight of their careers, had been adjudged of such value, Mr. Ruth was considered cheap at various salaries up to $1,000,000 per year. It was predicted that the New York owners would revise...