Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...employees will be allowed to buy G.M. products at 25% off or at cost, whichever is lower. (One local demanded...
Secretary of State: Pierre Guillamat, 48, former administrative head of the French Atomic Energy Commission, and a stout nationalist who is best remembered by delegates to international conferences for his insistence that France-regardless of cost or efficiency-make her own atomic bombs...
...failure in Algiers cost him his power. Though still in the high command, he became less influential than the more moderate Ferhat Abbas or the two military commanders of the Kabyles, Amar Ouamrane and Belkacem Krim. The newer leadership aimed at combining the fighting in Algeria with diplomatic maneuvers and appeals to world opinion. Abbane protested against the new line loudly and ineffectually, was often seen eating a solitary meal in cheap restaurants. One day he disappeared from Tunis, was rumored under house arrest until last week's notice of his death...
...wants Espaillat to waive his diplomatic immunity for questioning. Sydney Baron, the ex-Tammany Hall pressagent who acted as go-between for Trujillo and Ernst, said that the inquiry was "very comprehensive and expensive," that both Ernst and Baron would probably get more than their original guarantees, boosting the cost past the first estimate of $160,000. Trujillo doubtless will cheerfully...
Like a Lead Balloon. Gripped in my hand as we went through the power dive and pullout was a 4-oz. lead sinker of the kind used by bottom fishermen. Though it cost only 7? at the base PX, it made a far more vivid indicator of the zero-gravity state than the electronic accelerometer in which the Air Force has invested millions. As my bottom, squeezed to insensible bloodlessness during the 4-g pullout, rose from the seat cushion, I felt the exhilaration of restored circulation (and noted the lasting aptness of the old barnstormer's motto...