Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canada's Finance Minister Donald Fleming for a globe-girdling communication system linking virtually every Commonwealth land. Stretching from Britain across the Atlantic to Canada and on to New Zealand, Australia, India, Pakistan and Africa, the coaxial cable will join all nations by telephone for the first time. Cost: $246 million. Target date...
...External Affairs Secretary Sidney Smith marched to the General Assembly podium and put Canada squarely behind the U.S. resolution on Red China's ad mission. Said Smith: "Peace cannot be won by giving in to force. That is a lesson people of my generation have learned at heavy cost...
...mainly children under 15, centered in the city's low-income Negro sections. This week they could plead neither ignorance nor poverty. Polio was suddenly Detroit's best-publicized word, and alarmed officials began a four-week program of mass inoculations at $1 per shot, or no cost at all if a patient cannot afford...
What was worse than the high cost of the Treasury's latest borrowing was the fact that Secretary Anderson did not issue any bonds. He thought the market was too shaky to sell them at a reasonable price. By selling only short-term securities, he is bound to ease credit at a time when the Federal Reserve Board is trying to tighten it. Normally, most of the short-term securities sold by the Treasury are bought by commercial banks that, in turn, can use them as collateral to borrow from the Federal Reserve to make additional loans, thus increase...
When Arthur Murray dance studios began springing up all over the U.S. 20 years ago, the big sales pitch was learning to dance in a hurry at a small cost. But no longer. Now that the Murray studios have expanded to 450 on four continents doing $55 million of business last year, dancing takes more time-and more money...