Word: cheapness
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...policy which the United States adopts for Porto Rico must have three qualities: first, it must cure the immediate economic needs of Porto Rico by supplying cheap food and ready employment; second, it must assure the permanent development of Porto Rico industrially and socially. Finally, it must fulfill our moral obligation and must be politically wise...
...meant relief for the immediate economic needs of the island. "The United States has furnished foodstuffs cheaper than any country in the world, and can continue to do so, and we propose that the suffering, helpless Porto Ricans shall have them free of duty. But our plan means also cheap wearing apparel, cheap building material and cheap manufacturing material. To levy a duty upon these essentials of economic and social development would mean suffering to the already impoverished island more than commensurate with any revenue received...
...population or lines of transportation. Recently, however, the development of electrical transmission has changed all of this, and water powers which previously were overlooked are now being used. This is particularly the case where in the West the regulation of the streams for irrigation makes possible the development of cheap power...
...store. What more natural course could suggest it self then to the Corporation than to rent one of these sites to the Union for its building. In this way the Corporation, anxious at all times to get money, could obtain as much income as it does now from the cheap rooms of College House, or from the Co operative in Dane. Aside from all this, a respectable looking club building would go far towards tempering W. D. Howell's remark that "Harvard square is the ugliest spot on earth, outside of New York City...
...perfectly new Washburn banjo for sale very cheap. This is a great bargain and anyone wishing to secure such an instrument would do well to call at Briggs and Briggs Music Store...