Word: coste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alcohol manufacturers say they have no intention, if raw molasses becomes more costly, of making more alcohol from corn than they now make. Blackstrap is far cheaper than corn. Manufacturers predict they will continue the use of blackstrap, meeting the tariff boost by adding about 5¢ per gallon to the cost of their product. The farmers will pay these additional pennies (which they forced upon themselves) when they paint their barns, buy medicine, put anti-freeze in their cars...
...present Commission, to recommend a change in rate, must conduct a long investigation into foreign production cost. When the inquiry is over, the need for the change has generally passed, or increased beyond the Commission's measurement. The new bill proposes that the Commission accelerate its work by studying only the "condition of competition" in the domestic market and making its recommendations thereon...
Tennessee's Cordell Hull alone harked back to the old Democratic dogma of "tariff for revenue only." The proposed increases he said would cost the country 175 millions per year. His Democratic colleagues, pledged to protection at the Houston convention last year and by their presidential candidate, sat silent...
Consumers' View. An immediate question was: What effect will this bill, if and when enacted, have upon the cost of living? Such politicians as Massachusetts' Senator Walsh were quick to raise the old cry of "outrageous and exorbitant duties on food products," to predict direful increases in household expenses. More practical men, outside of Congress and familiar with food distribution and the tariff's effect upon it, were ready to believe that the retail buyer would not see much change in his meat and grocery bills. Operations between producer and consumer by the much-maligned Middle-Man would, experts explained...
...plans for constructing two giant dirigibles twice the size of (he Graf Zeppelin. The two ships, sisters of the two huge ships which Goodyear is constructing for the U. S. Navy, are to use helium as their supporting gas, will have engines and cabins enclosed in the hulls, will cost about five million dollars each. The first is to be launched about...