Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important drawing card is the biggest airline-fare bargain in the world. For the $90 economy round-trip fare, the tourist can go from Manhattan to San Juan and return-a total of 3,200 miles at a cost of 2.8? per mile v. 2.9? per mile for an average Manhattan subway ride. The cheap fare, aimed originally at migrating Puerto Ricans. now attracts an estimated 60,000 tourists a year...
...monthly, now sells 250,000; the Pepsi-Cola, Coca Cola and Canada Dry plants operate only two or three days a month. Bacardi Rum's main plant, which used to produce 144,000 bottles a day. last week closed for the first time since 1862. Eggs that once cost 4? apiece are now 10?: most food prices are up at least 40%. Holguin (pop. 82,000) has had no electricity for more than a fortnight. In Guantanamo and Bayamo. townsmen use horse-drawn wagons because there is no gasoline...
Batista has almost no enthusiastic support among Cubans outside the government; Castro, by contrast, gets ardent backing from students, professional classes who chafe at the indignities and corruption of dictatorship, and the political left. But the Cuban masses refuse the danger and cost of active support for Castro and, by abstaining, line up for Batista. The eventual solution for divided Cuba is no more foreseeable than that of another violence-torn island-far-off Cyprus...
...skeptics among the 175,000 U.S. undergraduates to whom the pamphlet is being distributed, the council notes such material teaching pleasures as a nine-month schedule, the sabbatical year. Other advantages now prevalent (at little or no cost): housing, medical and life insurance, pensions, mutual-fund stocks, education for faculty children. Average starting pay is still small (about $5,500 last year), but, since 1954, faculty salaries have risen about 7% a year...
...charity to make money. For $5,700 (and only 20% down), the Maternity Center Association bought up Marriage-Go-Round one night last week. It sold the tickets to members for $10 to $30, wound up with a profit of $16,000. Its major out-of-pocket cost: $210 for postage stamps. Why choose a broad sex comedy such as Marriage-Go-Round for the Maternity Center? Explains Director Hazel Corbin: "Because it turns out all right in the end. We always try to pick a play that is not disruptive of family life...