Word: cheapness
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...that the American market today consumes 90 per cent of our production, that the Republican party has protected that market for American wage earners and producers, and that to elect a Democratic senate or house would be a step in the direction of letting down the bars for foreign cheap labor competition in our market." The Democrats, being the party out of office, naturally run on a reform platform and "Slush" is their war cry, even out in Indiana where the Reed Senatorial Committee has been asked to investigate their primaries. Representative Oldfield last week journeyed to Allentown, Pa., where...
...Empire from white through reddish-brown to ebony, and from Christianity to Mohammedanism. To the curious traveler's eye, Abyssinia presents a rural scene, picturesquely set off by civic stenches. Camels jog up to French Somaliland with gum and ostrich feathers which are bartered there for cheap Occidental jewelry and clothing or for rock salt, lumps of which pass current as money in the interior, as do cartridges. The Empress and a few nobles enjoy the exotic luxury of corrugated iron roofs upon their "palaces." The Prince Regent has but to mutter a command and the groveling object...
...cruising radius is 2,500 miles. New, it costs the purchaser $37,000. It is planned to build 100 of these planes forthwith. After these are sold the price may drop to $28,000. Eventually, "we hope to put a machine in the air that will be as comparably cheap as our pleasure cars." It is to Henry Ford-and his son-that the U. S. has been looking for its first swarming fleets of aircraft. Extensive experiment was expected to preface the arrival of such fleets, and last week the experimental record, for flights on the Ford freight...
...England manufacturers had begun this cutlass-heaving, had grown potent - in a commercial way. Southern manufacturers, as they set themselves up along the Atlantic coastal plain, acquired the same tactics. This became all the easier when the New Englanders commenced filtering south for the sake of the cheap mountain labor of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama. And last week these bitter competitors were bid to an agape, a love feast. As they assembled at the Biltmore, they scarcely knew what to expect...
Frenchmen consider that peace with Krim was cheap at the price, promised him comfortable support in his exile...