Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since the first examination of Post Office expenses was made in 1926, first class mail has consistently paid far more than its cost. The rate hike proposal recently approved by the Senate will increase even more the proportion of postal service supported by first class revenue. In effect, it will give a larger discount rate to the major magazine concerns and the advertisers who flood the post office with "junk mail...
...construction would take about three years. About three-fifths of the cost would be charged to teaching, the rest to research...
...ultimate deterrent to all-out thermonuclear war. The U.S. might as well get ready to scratch the Air Force's Strategic Air Command, they boast, since 40 Polaris subs (life span: 15-20 years), along with the necessary hardware, crews, tenders and a few extra bases, would cost only $7 billion-and that would about pay for all the deterrent the U.S. needs...
Built at an estimated cost of $35 million, the Seagram monument is set back on a twin-fountained, granite and marble plaza that serves as its pedestal. By day it is a soaring column the color of an old cannon; by night it is a giant, glowing shaft punctuating the Manhattan skyline (see color page). It is the definitive statement of what a skyscraper can be by the architect whom most purists hail as the master of glass-and-steel design: Chicago's German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 71 (TIME, June...
Before the N.H.S. was launched in 1948, optimists estimated that it would cost $490 million a year; of this, $355 million would come from general tax funds, the balance from individual contributions of up to about 20? a week. But the estimates proved woefully...