Word: coste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge talked and thought canals. Senator Walter E. Edge of New Jersey, Chairman of the Interoceanic Canals Committee of the Senate had, among others, recently looked inquisitively into the waters of the Panama Canal; he talked persuasively to the President, of the need for a Nicaragua canal, to cost between $500,000,000 and $1,000,000,000. As an economical alternative, he suggested a new $125,000,000 lock for the Panama Canal.* The President, it was reported, would think about it. Meanwhile, the Navy demonstrated to their own satisfaction, once more, the vulnerability of the present canal...
...railroads accepted this national law (they secured certain guarantees of profits under it). But they have quarreled with shippers and other transportation users about the method of calculating their valuations. It takes far more money to construct a road in 1927 than it did in 1914. It might cost $140,000 now to replace completely a line that 13 years ago cost $100,000. So replacement value is the great quarreling point, because $7,000 profit is only 5% of $140,000, although 7% of $100,000. In one case the railroad earns less than it is permitted (6%) profit...
Following the implication of Dr. Angell's remarks to their conclusion, part of the burden of the cost of bettering education must fall upon the parents of students. It is they upon whom increase of tuition would fall. A possible expedient for enlisting their support might be the sliding system of tuition now in existence at Kent School where no boy is excluded because of parental inability to support him, where several parents pay as much as twice the tuition fee, and where the average fee is well over that the school sets as a standard. Objection to this scheme...
...ground in a pose characteristic of the famous mentor. The two flanking tablets will represent scrimmages. On the base, directly underneath the bas-reliefs, will be the words "In Memory of Percy Duncan Haughton." The memorial is designed by a Boston firm, Walker, Walker and Kingsbury, and will cost...
...thought to be the best. The twelve frontiers-women will now tour the U. S., votes being taken everywhere on their value as art. The final winner will be reproduced on an heroic size scale and erected on the Cherokee Strip near Ponca City in Oklahoma at a cost...