Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came seemed interested. A group of women construction engineers found the simple, graceful lines of modern architecture distasteful, said they preferred Russian gingerbread. They failed to find esthetic interest in chimneys or fireplaces, passed them off as backward and primitive. All were amazed by the low-cost housing, though some skeptically assumed that it represented a dream of the future, not an existing fact...
...most enterprising artistic coup cost nothing. Knowing that many of Paris' famed artists amiably sign the guest books kept by most Paris cafés and often add a quick sketch, Plimpton and Du Bois spent weeks going from café to café to search the books, turned up a fascinating collection of spontaneous sketches by Matisse, Picasso, Dufy, Derain, Buffet and even the long dead Toulouse-Lautrec...
...outset, both bills bore genuine promise of a substantial long-term federal boost for education on a broad scale. The House bill would cost about $1 billion during the next seven years, and would provide...
...Senate bill would go somewhat further than the House version. It would cost an additional $500 million, would give scholarships and other aid for six years instead of four, and would encourage college students to enter teaching by deducting 20% from the balance owed on student loans for each year the borrower taught school after graduation...
...month steelmen anxiously waited for U.S. Steel, the industry's pace setter, to raise its prices to match the automatic July 1 wage increase (cost: 26? an hour). But Big Steel, which led the industry in eleven of the twelve boosts since World War II, this time plainly intended to let someone else lead the way-and take the political walloping that was sure to follow. Moreover, Big Steel probably needed a raise least, because of increased efficiency in its operations (see below). Last week Armco Steel's President R. L. Gray finally took the step, raised...