Word: coste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prominent figures in Berlin's night life. Where bands blared loudest, where dimples were deepest, there were the Sklareks. Head waiters understood that the bounteous brothers held valuable contracts from the Berlin municipal government for clothing, uniforms, hospital linen. Unfortunately Sklarek commissions could not keep up with the cost of Sklarek champagne. The Sklareks "arranged" for cash advances to the sum of $2,000,000 from Berlin's municipally operated City Bank...
Hotel Waldorf-Astoria Corp. The cost of the new Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, Manhattan, to be completed in 1931 will be $28,100,000. Erected on New York Central property (Park Avenue from 49th to 50th St.) the railroad will furnish up to $10,000,000 toward the hotel's completion. Other funds will come from the sale of stock and an $11,000,000 bond issue, offered last week...
...reported upon the Military Academy:--"I believe that the great services it has rendered the country were never more conspicuous than it has been during the past two years. The faithful and efficient services of its graduates since the declaration of war with Spain have more than repaid the cost of the institution since its foundation...
...recent weeks sharp-eyed Fascist scouts noted in Italian bookstores handsomely bound, well made editions of the works of classic Russian and American authors selling at prices obviously below the cost of manufacture. Fascist authorities scented propaganda. Last week, armed with orders from the Italian Department of the Interior (Italy's Department of the Interior: Benito Mussolini), black-shirted, truncheon-swinging Fascist Militia raided bookstores, bundled all editions of the works of Gorky, Gogol, Dostoievski, Tolstoy, Turgeniev, and even Jack London into vans. Official reason: "Low-priced editions of these works have injured the sale of books by modern...
Though the new straw-thatched building to which the sacred mirror moved last week is only 37 by 18 ft., and of the most primitive design, it has taken nine years to build, has cost the Imperial Government nearly...