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Word: coste (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Deputies by Colonial Minister Luigi Federzoni. "One of the most brilliant pages in the world's colonial history," cried he, "is inscribed with the story of how Italian troops have recently occupied in Tripolitania and Cyrenaica an additional area one third the size of Italy at a paltry cost of less than 57,000,000 lira...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Declaration Day | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

Three months ago the runners started from Los Angeles. In front of them rode C. C. Pyle in a motor bungalow accompanied by his protege, Red Grange. Behind the bungalow came a broadcasting car which cost $1,000 a week to operate. Behind the broadcasting car, before much time had passed, came sheriffs on motorcycles. Soon the bungalow was attached for debts. At every town runners quit. Red Grange, barker of a side show which Pyle set up in a tent wherever he stopped failed to make money. Pyle gave the runners $1.50 a day for food, put cots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bunioneers | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...Mississippi, who came long ago to settle in the "middle border," Sculptor Taft conceived the idea of making a statue for the village green, requiring for his work no payment. It was nonetheless necessary for Elmwood's 1200 denizens to raise $17,000 to pay for the material costs of the statue and the cost of erecting it. This they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pioneers | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...estimate of the cost either of the portable steel stands or of the permanent concrete seats is available. Mr. Bingham was out of town last night and could not be reached for a statement on the matter.WOODEN STANDS, CONDEMNED BY FIREMEN, WILL GIVE PLACE TO CONCRETE STRUCTURE The Stadium wooden stands that have been so long a bone of contention with the Boston fire-commissioners may be supplanted this fall by a modern concrete bowl. The Corporation has authorized the Director of Athletics to consider plans for such a project submitted by C. A. Coolidge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corporation Vetoes Plan of Overseers for Big Stadium | 6/1/1928 | See Source »

...Cost. The total fare between Manhattan and Los Angeles will be some $375, as compared with the present railroad fare (including cost of drawing room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Train & Plane | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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