Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cost of repair was to run to at least ?11,000-and that, as every sensible Londoner knew, would be only the beginning. "So much," fumed the Morning Herald on June 21, 1783, "has this extraordinary edifice cost the country-for one moiety of which sum, a much better dwelling might have been purchased." But in spite of all the fuss, the British went through with the "great repair," just as they had done before and were to do time and time again. For more than 200 years the house, now known as No. 10 Downing Street, has been...
...shifting dirt. Its timbers are rotting, the Cabinet room is hazardous, some floors are so weak that the number of guests invited to receptions have had to be cut. What No. 10 needs, said the White Paper, is nothing less than a complete "structural overhaul" at a cost of at least ?400,000 ($1,120,000). Once again sensible men could say that the most economical course would be to tear the whole place down. But as usual, even sensible men will agree in the end that London would not really be London without the original, precarious and thoroughly beloved...
...regal acknowledgment of British inflation, Queen Elizabeth II ordered a 6.4% pay hike for her staff of 200, the second cost-of-living increase in Buckingham Palace wages in five years...
...parachute silk heaved in simulation of caterpillar motion (achieved with the aid of a huge air-blowing system). The monster, which stole the show among 285 commercially sponsored exhibits, was Surrealist Salvador Dali's unrealistic idea of tranquillity executed for Wallace Laboratories to promote Miltown. Estimated total cost of the exhibit: $100,000, including a $35,000 fee for Artist Dali...
...High Cost of Loving. The hilarious private life of a rising young white-collar couple, described by Scriptwriter Rip Van Ronkel and Actor-Director José Ferrer (TIME, March...