Word: coste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor John T. Martineau of Arkansas. He came as a chair-man with his six Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi colleagues on the tri-state executive board of flood control. After the call, Governor Martineau said: "We found President Coolidge sympathetic. . . ." He estimated that the permanent anti-flood program would cost close to a half billion.* The governor and colleagues later conferred with Secretary of War Davis and chief of engineers General Hadwin. ¶Four days after Governor Martineau, along came Governor John S. Fisher of Pennsylvania, to extend invitations for this and that and to judge for himself...
...Cost of the Navy...
...highly ingenious and certainly a new thought on the subject may be credited fully to Dean Gauss. After estimating the average cost of a college education at something over eight thousand dollars, he suggests that parents try the experiment of investing this sum for their child at birth at compound interest rates. What such a sum would have grown to by the time the child reaches the college board period of life is not mathematically estimated, though one must suppose it to be staggering. The moral is, however, how many parents who now send their sons to college with...
Billion-Dollar Service. Mr. New prefaced a survey of his Department's record and functions by telling what it costs to operate it now ?714 millions for the last fiscal year. Soon, he said, the U. S. Post Office will cost a billion per annum...
...Cost. When the Japanese came to count the cost of the awful visitation of the elements, they found 719 persons had been killed, 2,313 injured; 850 houses had been destroyed, 3,000 flooded, many of them floating away with their inhabitants astride the roofs; 37 vessels had been dashed from their moorings and ten miles of dikes had been washed away...