Word: coste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next spring rise of the Mississippi. With much of the land below the level of the river, it is obvious that even a small rise in the waters would cause another catastrophe. It is reported that Federal authorities wish to have one-fourth of the levee repair work (cost estimated at $50,000,000) paid for by the people of the flood region, but how these people are going to pull $12,500,000 out of empty pockets remains to be seen...
...company build the ship, it cannot collect the $50,000 for the design, a stipulation of the contest being that if the company submitting the winning design also should be given the job of building the ship, it could not collect the prize-money. Inasmuch as the dirigible will cost in the neighborhood of $4,500,000, the $50,000 becomes a small detail and the Goodyear company will, in all probability, go ahead with the construction job which will take some three years for completion...
...Glenn L. Martin Co. of Cleveland, famed airplane makers, was last week given a U. S. Navy contract for 54 bombing and torpedo planes. The Navy also took an option to buy 96 more planes of the same type within five weeks. The 54 planes already contracted for will cost $1,560,000; the entire order will assure a full year of steady work to the 800 Glenn L. Martin employes...
Dictator Stalin went on to say that this documentary evidence supplied justification for the recent execution of some 20 "White Russians" in Moscow (TIME, June 20). He concluded: The White Russians who have been shot were about to lead a rebellion that would have cost millions of lives...
...bring such a host of permanent residents to Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, has cost millions of dollars. There the "objects of art" in paint, marble, bronze, tapestry, are mostly by world-famed masters. Their owners go off summering comforted by thought of the heavy insurance policies, faithful watchmen, alert elevator attendants provided to protect the expensive stay-behinds...