Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defense, atomic energy, foreign military aid will, by the President's budget (to be presented to Congress next week), total $47 billion in fiscal 1960, or more than 60% of the federal budget. The U.S. is already investing $7 billion a year in missiles, developing fighter planes that cost 50 times as much as World War II models, buying bombers that cost more than their weight in gold...
...polio vaccine early in the 1955 vaccination season when about 200 cases of polio were blamed on infective vaccine. The U.S. Public Health Service and the manufacturers understandably redoubled their efforts to make the vaccine safe. They succeeded-there has been no such disaster since-but at the cost of an equally desirable increase in the vaccine's potency...
Wandering Scholars. At school, students miss no meals, although they may eat plain Bratwurst or Spätzle. Plainness in food is more than made up for by the low cost of the six months abroad. The university charges only about $1,000-the amount it collects for a boarding semester at Stanford-for plane fare to Germany, board, room and tuition. Thoughtfully, Stanford officials made no provision for return flights to the U.S. Best evidence of Landgut Burg's success: the university is seriously considering a similar outpost in Florence, has in the back of its mind...
...American pilots' victory, which will set the pace for the whole industry, was wrought at great cost to others. Some 20,000 other American employees were put out of work for a week by the 22-day strike. American and its suppliers lost an estimated $33 million...
...service that takes over all payroll problems for individual business firms, pays wages and salaries, social security, government taxes, etc. Operated on a cost-plus-fee basis, the plan has already been tried successfully by a dozen San Francisco firms...