Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cost would be prohibitive. And, notes A. T. & T., consider the chewed fingernails when a telephone user ends a conversation in response to such a signal-and is not called back...
Asked about the cost of the project, Sullivan said he had no figure in mind because he had not had detailed plans made. Rep. Koplow suggested that it would be impossible to build apartments on the site which would rent for a reasonable amount...
Other speakers, representing the Community Boating Club, M.I.T., and commercial, civic, and neighborhood groups, presented further objections to the committee, including serious flood danger, loss of recreational and civic assets, and the cost to the city of providing additional schools and services for the project, which, they said, would more than offset any tax benefit that it would provide...
Perhaps the most important consequence would be relocation of the MTA yards and shops which would follow the elimination of most of the surface lines running into Harvard Square and the transfer of terminal facilities to West Cambridge. The University has offered to help pay the cost of relocation if it can acquire the yards for its own expansion...
Opponents of the extension have stressed its cost, already estimated at $20 million, and almost sure to go higher. But while the initial costs are great, the improvement will permit substitution of profitable rapid transit operations for deficit-producing bus and trolley routes--a very appealing argument since the MTA was $15 million in the red last year...