Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole crop, extracting both oil and edible protein. The oil and other byproducts could be exported, earning as much money as exporting the peanuts whole, and the protein could be retained to correct Nigeria's protein-deficient diet. A machine digesting four tons of peanuts per hour would cost only $700,000, and it would supply enough protein for a city of 250,000 people. "It is no longer inevitable," says Chayen, "that the majority of the population of this earth should suffer from gross and chronic malnutrition. There is abundant protein for all, growing around them. They...
Meanwhile, the cost of consumer loans was sharply rising. In New York, First National City Bank posted a new schedule of charges keyed to the rising cost of money. A representative change: the buyer of a car hereafter will pay the equivalent of 7.8% interest for a bank loan instead...
...Eisenhower last week criticized Congress for its failure to raise the 4¼% ceiling on long-term Government bond rates (TIME, Sept. 21). Raising the interest the Government pays on such bonds, argued Congressmen, would only be an open invitation to all other money rates to go up, would cost the Government more to finance its debt. Last week interest rates were going up anyway without an invitation, and the Government was paying close to-or more than-4¼% on its new securities...
...nation's railroads, among the outside industries hardest hit by the strike, have lost 1,340,000 cars of freight since the strike began. Last week the Association of American Railroads estimated that the strike has cost the roads $320 million in revenues through Sept...
...high cost of adding the Valiant and changing over to 1960 models will put Chrysler in the red for the third quarter, but the company expects to match the loss with fourth-quarter profits, assuming the steel strike does not cut production...