Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chairman, in respect to a coat . . . Mr. Goldfine has always been proud of his [vicuña] product. He makes a good product . . . The cost at his mill was in the vicinity of $69. The garment he made up at a local tailor. Now, Mr. Chairman, that was not an unusual activity . . . You are concerned, and I think correctly so, as to how such a friendship could affect the conduct of myself, an official, Assistant to the President, in his relations with men within the Government...
...policy had been influenced by the imponderable pressures of "world opinion" toward negotiated agreements with world Communism in general and toward a suspension of U.S. nuclear tests in particular, and in longings for a parley at the summit. Now that pressure was indefinitely postponed-as usual, at the cost of the lives of brave men. Said Secretary of State Dulles: "I still think it will be a little time before there is a summit conference, if indeed there...
...sack, as well as Western-style swimsuits (see cuts). Explains the fashion show commentator: "The masses will grow accustomed to dresses as high as 14 inches from the floor." But neither the masses nor the class will be able to buy the dresses-only the materials and patterns. The cost for one dress: about two weeks...
...tolls aimed at attracting a high volume of traffic to the new deepwater channels when they open next year. Hearings on the toll rates will open in Ottawa and Washington in August; if both the U.S. and Canadian governments approve the rates as recommended, it will usually cost shipowners less in tolls to move their vessels the 369 miles from Montreal to Lake Erie than to go through the Panama or Suez Canals...
...bulk cargo and 95? a ton for general cargo. A modern C-2 freighter carrying 4,000 tons of bulk cargo (ore, grain, pulpwood. scrap) and 4,000 tons of packaged merchandise would pay $5,955 for a one-way passage; a profitless trip in ballast would cost only $475 in tolls...