Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time to prowl City Hall, and eking out their reports with wire-service coverage, Editor Farrell explored in acid detail such practices by inexperienced officials as heavy overpayment for a batch of air conditioners and the "economy" of firing 17 city attorneys and replacing them with 19 at the cost of an extra $13,500. Needling Murray's personal foibles, Gene Farrell even told rewrite men and reporters to drop the Jr. from his name...
...this week took another step down the road toward generating electricity from atomic fuels at a cost competitive with hydroelectric power or coal power. The Argonne National Laboratory at Lemont, Ill. announced its experimental boiling water reactor, put in operation a year ago and originally designed for an output of 20,000 kw. of heat had been safely operated at a level of 50,000 kw., cutting the estimated cost of electricity per kw-h from 5.2? to 3.2?. while that price is still too high to be of commercial use, Argonne estimates that four boiling water reactors like...
Since 1946, missile spending has skyrocketed from $70 million to $3 billion annually. But in actual fact, the U.S. intermediate (IRBM) and intercontinental (ICBM) missile programs are still in the experimental stages. Intermediate missiles alone may cost the U.S. $7 billion; the bigger, 5,000-mile Atlas ICBM will cost $8 billion to $10 billion in the next decade or so before it is superseded by something better. And missile programs themselves will get bigger and more expensive...
...cattle industry has long looked for a way to soothe cattle on the way to market. Distraught cattle pick fights with their neighbors, fret off as much as 10% of their valuable weight during the journey, cost the industry up to $1 billion a year. Shot full of Jen-Sal's tranquilizer, a steer will put up with almost anything for as long as three days, will walk up the abattoir healthy and hefty...
...edgy steer was solved by a .50-cal. carbondioxide-powered rifle remodeled to fire a needle-nosed cartridge containing the tranquilizer. Accurate up to 50 yds., the needle whumps about an inch into the steer's rump and carbon-dioxide gas forces happiness into the beast. Cost...