Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officers still federalized and still on duty at Central High School to bar agitators and prevent incidents among the 2,000 students. Last week, as the last 400 guardsmen prepared to march out on May 29, eight of the nine Negro children were still in school. It had cost the U.S. $4,651,000 to keep them there...
...miles across Greece by plane, train, ship and car, raised his stentorian voice in all but six of the 55 electoral districts in Greece. Karamanlis had brought on the new elections himself by resigning his premiership as an answer to dissidents in his own party whose defection cost him his parliamentary majority. Under a caretaker government appointed by his strong supporter King Paul. Karamanlis helped ram through a new electoral law (Greece's fourth since the end of World War II) designed to strengthen the two-party system and to cut down on the splinter groups that proliferate...
...astonished. In Jerusalem last week the Israelis dedicated a "supreme religious center" in the form of a glittering seven-story building, white-cupolaed and monumental with pillars, fitted out inside with tiles and marble, English oak paneling, elevators, and hot-air blowers (instead of towels) in the lavatories. It cost $1,700,000-more than two-thirds of it from the pocket of British Chain Store Tycoon Isaac Wolf son-and the dedication ceremony was appropriate for a building that aspires to be the new center of religious law for all the world's Orthodox Jews...
Despite anonymous letters sent to 1,500 advertisers, threatening a "massive crusade" against stores advertising in the Gazette, the boycott has not cost the Gazette a line of advertising, and the paper's circulation is gradually rising again. Said Editor Ashmore, after winning his Pulitzer: "I am confident that in time the Gazette will regain the circulation it has lost, and will emerge from this ordeal stronger than ever...
...Congress this week went Interior Secretary Fred Seaton's plan to help depressed U.S. mining industries and also to quiet opposition to extending the reciprocal trade agreements. Under Seaton's five-year plan, which would cost an estimated $161 million the first year, the Government would pay the miners of copper, lead, zinc, tungsten and fluorspar the difference between the market price and a set "stabilization" price. To Canada and the Latin American countries that export metals to the U.S., the Seaton plan is a welcome alternative to the tariff increases they face. The increases, plus cutbacks...