Word: coste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...start and a total of $277,000,000 appropriation to three-track the (now two-track) locks of the Panama Canal. Representative Ed Izac of California, bemedaled War veteran, pleaded vainly for the 114-year-old dream of a Nicaraguan Canal, which would take ten years to build, cost $800,000,000 (Panama Canal's original cost...
Tony Stralla said the Rex alone cost him $600,000. Mayor Fletcher Bowron (whose closing of Los Angeles gambling nightspots last year vastly improved Tony's trade) estimated the Rex's "take" at $300,000 per month. When local officials tried to shoo him away or close him up, Tony Stralla was upheld by California's Court of Appeals: his ships were beyond the three-mile limit, beyond State jurisdiction...
...terrain so as to conserve manpower, but his shrewd disposition of fire power constantly enhanced the offensive quality of his command. His many citations praised his "highest qualities of method and of inspection" and his ability to carry his objectives "in the course of a general offensive at the cost of minimum losses." The French soldier did not like him less for that and the present French Army does not forget this quality in its Commander-in-Chief. "Very much all there," was the way one British general characterized Gamelin in the War years. He appears, during the entire...
There were two reasons for this: 1) The warring nations were forced to get along with old clothes, to drink coffee substitutes, to cut down smoking. But they desperately needed food and war supplies. The relative demand for various goods had completely changed. 2) The costs of transportation changed just as radically. There were few ships available to carry cotton, coffee and tobacco. More important, the cost of insuring these staples in transit through mine-and-submarine-infested waters rose to affect commerce in the same way as if new tariff barriers had been erected. Rubber, for example, zoomed...
...paid 50% in dividends; in 1916, 55%. Gross profits of 17 largest Dutch steamship companies were 32,400,000 florins in 1913; 141,147,000 in 1916. Gold flowed into Dutch banks (as it also piled up in Swedish, Norwegian, Swiss and Spanish banks). But taxes went up. It cost the Dutch $600,000,000 to keep half a million men idle for four years along the German and Belgian frontiers and to intern prisoners from both sides...