Word: cheapness
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...problem is that under certain conditions it pays the railroads to give cheaper rates on long haul than on short haul freight. The case in question has to do with shipments to the East from the Pacific Coast. In this case the railroads have to compete with cheap water freight rates for shipment through the Panama Canal. To get traffic on many classes of goods, the railroads must cut their rates for the long haul. In general and in theory, rates are fixed on such a basis as will pay: 1) for the actual cost of moving freight, plus...
...sense of the theatric saves the play from the Elinor Glyn class. But it is like spoiling a good bedroom farce with too much cheap philosophy. Phoebe Foster as the harried heroine hardly fosters interest. She is pretty, but wears dresses that add nothing to her charm and years to her age. One wonders that Lee Baker, who grates his teeth as well as he can in the sinister role, does not prefer Lilyan Tashman, who seems at least as real as her slang...
...Richard B. Moore again championed helium as an aeronautic gas. The Dixmude, ZR-2, and Roma disasters would not have occurred, if it had been used, he said. Within a year or two, the cost of production will be practically as cheap as for hydrogen...
Hangars will not disappear. They will simply be fewer. The usual procedure in commercial dirigible operation will be to moor at the mast, but to maintain hangars nevertheless as a species of "dry dock," where ships will come at rare intervals for thorough overhauls. Since mooring masts are comparatively cheap, the economy realized will greatly facilitate commercial operation...
Heywood Broun: ". . . epigrams which fall like anvils. I can remember no play which has seemed so utterly cheap, preposterous and vulgar...