Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rejected a suggestion by a special Faculty committee which would re-establish the department. Calling for a staff with three permanent appointees plus several graduate assistants and cartographers, the committee's report asked for too much too soon. It has been estimated that establishment of a new chair costs $400,000--and the proposal for three permanent appointments, in addition to a staff, is impossibly expensive. Until the cost problem can be solved, any plans for geography should be shelved...
...rightly emphasized, however, that the historical method of teaching geography should be instituted here. Although used extensively in Europe, this method of teaching has never won favor in the United States. It does provide a logical connection with the Department of History--and a possible means of lessening the cost problems...
...prosperity; output rose to a peak of 42,286 tons in 1912-at prices that hit $3 a lb. In the jungle, the rubber barons enslaved Indians and immigrants, drove them so hard that 300,000 died; a 230-mile railroad, built to carry rubber from Bolivia, cost 70 lives a mile to build. In Manaus, the rubber tycoons built mansions and watched Pavlova dance in a $10 million opera house. Then England's Henry Wickham smuggled rubber tree seeds to London's Kew Gardens and on to the Far East, where efficient plantations broke Brazil...
...used in its massive walls. The National Shrine is 459 ft. at its longest point and 240 at its widest, has a capacity of 6,000 people. The $250,000 organ is a memorial to deceased chaplains and members of the U.S. armed forces. The 329-ft. bell tower cost $1,000,000, raised by the Knights of Columbus. Two statues of the Virgin by Sculptor Ivan Mestrovic dominate the north and south walls of the church. Above them rises a mosaic dome of blue, red and gold, topped by a gold-leafed steel cross...
...unions' most paradoxical argument is that changes in the present rules would actually cost the railroads more than they claim they could save. Railroad workers, whose wages average $2.47 an hour, are paid less than workers in many major U.S. industries. If roads paid overtime, differentials for nightwork. severance pay and other benefits, say the unions, it would cost them $648 million more a year...