Word: coste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate and was pending before the House, they sounded almost savage. President Coolidge added that the provisions of the bill would enrich great railroad and lumber companies besides impoverishing the national Treasury. The bill called nominally for $325,000,000, but every one realized that in practice the cost could run as high as $1,500,000,000, or $1,210,000,000 more than the Army engineers had asked for the work. The President suggested what an uproar Congress would have made if the situation were reversed, if the Administration had asked such a monster sum. He indicated pretty...
...Passed a resolution by Senator Gould of Maine, instructing the U. S. Tariff Commission to investigate the cost of producing potatoes...
That a more telling argument than any had been Lawyer Littleton's to the effect that a man like Sinclair, if he were going in for a conspiracy, would not have stopped at the trifling cost of $304,000; and Fall, if he were selling Teapot Dome, could easily have gotten more than a quartermillion...
...gone merrily on. If it has never gone very deep it is because the tools have been many. They have ranged from the Bookman to the Boston Traveler, and now the Forum has discovered, with Mr. Sinclair taking the melody on the slide trombone, that murders in Boston cost three thousand dollars...
Three dangers he sees, turning from the past to look into the future. First, he finds that the cost of high pressure distribution is beginning to offset the saving of mass productions. In the second place, mass production is threatened by hand-to-mouth buying, fostered by the need for rapid distribution and the consequently developed habit of rapid "style-change". And in the third place, Mr. Mazur sees danger to our prosperity from a change in the European trade balance...