Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Polling for Trends. Where each Congressman is allowed one annual Government-paid trip to his home district, Chamberlain made 14 his first year, 18 his second, at a personal cost of $76.34 per trip. Most of all, Chamberlain learned to rely on a system of periodic polls, sending out questionnaires to 150,000 Sixth District voters (each poll costs him $700). "The returns may not be complete," says Chamberlain, "and they certainly are not infallible, but they always show a trend...
...would break up Spaceman Wernher von Braun's dedicated Redstone team, which produced the dependable Jupiter-C and the first U.S. satellite, scatter experts into private industry; 2) Redstone works 85% on military, nonspace projects, and NASA is not allowed to make military decisions; 3) operating Redstone would cost more than NASA's total $301 million budget in overhead and equipment...
...middle distance-3 to 25 ft. At the top is a thick oval lens, apres Fresnel, with three-power magnification for distance-"infinity," which begins at 25 ft. At the bottom is a similar lens with magnification of 3 to 20 diameters for reading, sewing or benchwork. Cost of the three-in-one lighthouse...
...other of the world's great opera houses. This week the house celebrates its 75th anniversary with a nostalgic birthday review (lantern slides and ancient recordings assembled by the Metropolitan Opera Guild) of some of its finest achievements. The yellow brick house was built (in 1883) at a cost of $1,732,478.71, principally as a showcase for New York society (the impresario of the older, posher Academy of Music referred to it as "the yellow brewery on Broadway"). The architect, Josiah Cleaveland Cady, had never seen a grand opera, and he built the Met on the theory that...
...must remember that the majority of mankind belong to the colored races . . . If America continues to lose friends as others become convinced that we do not mean what we say about justice and equality . . . these judgments are the plain cost we pay in God's universe for not practicing what we preach...