Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This fact was very much in the President's mind as he fended off demands for reckless action to halt the downturn by any means, at any cost. Labor, business, state and local governments, all were calling for action from Washington, and doing very little on their own to help fight the recession. Symbolizing the panic pressures, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther and other top labor leaders handed the President a damn-the-deficits plan that included just about everything except an offer to join with management in a hold-down on wages...
...tiny secondhand Renault. The price of 90,000 zlotys ($22,500 at the official rate of exchange) for a new Warszawa represents 250 weeks' work for a Pole. Hungarians, Bulgarians and Rumanians, who manufacture no cars of their own, must set their sights on imported Russian Pobedas, which cost them the equivalent of from 130 weeks' work to 750 weeks' work (in Rumania), depending on the currency. Even at that price, they have very little chance of getting a car: in Russia, where only about 100,000 automobiles are produced each year, there is a waiting list...
...been battling with the makers of Carter's Little Liver Pills for 15 years without a definite decision on FTC charges of false claims. It has been forced to hold 149 hearings, run up a transcript of 11,000 pages and 1,000 medical exhibits-at a cost of $1,000,000 to the taxpayers...
...Federal Power Commission has been considering for two years an application by the Midwestern-Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. to build a natural-gas pipeline from Tennessee to the Canadian border, has gone through 789 exhibits and 21,091 pages of testimony, at a cost of $1,500,000 to the Government and companies without reaching a decision. ¶| The Federal Communications Com mission has been listening to the arguments of seven applicants for a Toledo TV channel since 1952, with no end in sight. Says an FCC official: "We'd do just as well to draw a name from...
...Kusan-Auburn Inc. As the train starts, a white ball of styrofoam rises on a steady stream of air from a car with a twin-turbine compressor, floats along one foot above the train until it stops. Other gimmicks: a revolving radar screen, searchlight, laboratory car, four extra satellites. Cost...