Word: coste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commerce. Lately rebuked for its insistence on a large tax cut (TIME, Dec. 5), the Chamber announced- at least its national president, Banker Lewis Eugene Pierson of Manhattan, announced- that more than three-fourths of all U. S. Chamber men* believed the Federal Government should bear the entire cost of Mississippi flood control. In his message to Congress, President Coolidge had mentioned 80% of flood control costs as a more-than-generous portion for the Federal Government to bear...
...agree to remedial measures." 2) Congress alone has power to force the coal industry out of the morass in which it now is." 3) "The morass" is overdevelopment: too many mines, too many miners. 4) Left alone, the strongest, operators would survive the present cut-throat competition "at fearful cost to those too weak to survive and with further hardship to labor during the process." 5) President Coolidge has repeatedly suggested setting up a federal board to arbitrate in coal emergencies, but- 6) "As emergency is a chronic state in coal," perhaps such a board had better regulate as well...
...resolution which Representative McClintic did introduce last week asked investigation of a $34,000,000 discrepancy between the 1919 estimate and the actual 1927 cost of the new U. S. airplane carriers Saratoga and Lexington...
Secretary Wilbur's list represented the first of four successive programs planned by U. S. Navy men for the next 20 years. Each program is to take five years to complete. The "speculative" cost of the first five-year program, submitted last week, was put at $725,000,000. The U. S. could pay that sum in two years out of its tobacco taxes alone. The cost of the entire 20-year Navy building plan was estimated at $2,900,000,000 or about one-sixth of the present national debt. In advocating the new program, which was transmitted...
Thirty three and one third percent of the gross proceeds from the sale of the articles will go to the owners, and similar amounts will be divided between the Syndicate and its editors. The Syndicate will defray all cost of printing, distribution, exploitation, and sales: keep the accounts, make collections, and in general conduct all the business matters connected with the service...