Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book [Jan. 13]? He's just been sitting in a little Illinois town putting his thoughts on paper-like many other inept writers. Blame the present sad state of American letters in which publishers print manuscripts of such caliber; moving-picture companies buy them at a cost of millions. It is scant comfort to professional writers like myself-who beat our brains out, trying to peddle manuscripts of more or less reasonable value in a market without values-to know that Some Came Running from Here to Eternity...
...Without even inviting competitive bids, the local awarded cost-plus-10% construction contracts to a firm owned by Swanson...
...chief reasons for the rails' troubles. While the railroads are forced to lay out more every year for maintenance and to pay local taxes, the "Government spends more and more on airways, highways and waterways for the use of our competitors who contribute little if anything to the cost of local government" through property taxes. James M. Symes, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, No. 1 U.S. carrier, also pleaded with Congress to end direct and indirect subsidies for trucks, airlines and competing carriers. Said Symes: "What we are asking for is the freedom to compete on an equal basis...
Help or Else. Almost every top railroadman went to the hearings armed with a set of recommendations designed to ease the railroads' ills. Among them: allow the railroads the full cost of carrying the U.S. mail, now carried at a loss; eliminate the 10% federal tax on passenger fares, passed during the war to discourage travel, and the 3% tax on freight; encourage railroad mergers; allow the roads to diversify more widely into other forms of transportation, such as trucks and planes. Said the Central's President Perlman: "If we fail to convince you of the desperate need...
...which can spray up to 15 Ibs. of plastic and fiber glass a minute on a mold and cut the cost of laminating plastic boats by as much as 40%, was announced last week by Rand Development Corp. of Cleveland...