Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three of us cajoled our landlady into providing the device we had in mind. She told us it would cost more than we could afford, but reluctantly agreed to go ahead after we put up the cash in advance. When we returned the following Saturday, sure enough, there it was. It drew enormous crowds, and caught on like wildfire. The total cost was $75-which came to $25 apiece...
Only 50 lecture courses will be offered each year. By preventing a proliferation of lowenrollment courses, and thereby holding its faculty to an active minimum, New College will be able to pay the full cost of instruction with a tuition of around $1000. There will be no need for faculty endowments. At many colleges, an even higher tutition charge today covers less than the actual costs...
...even if it could survive a debate on the scale of that which accompanied the first such proposal in 1953 and 1954, would cost a chunk of cash. The Cordiner pay scale contemplated a first-year increase in expenditure of $650 million, though the committee thought that in four to six years the plan would decrease in expense and might even be cheaper than the present system in the long...
After experimenting with accident and health policies for auto-racing drivers, test pilots and United Nations truce teams, the Continental Casualty Co. (assets: $419,761,432) was ready to solve one of the insurance industry's greatest longtime problems: a low-cost hospital-surgical plan for persons 65 and over. With the help of International Business Machines' wonder-working 705 computer, Continental devised a radical new policy procedure that cuts costs sharply and comes close to automating insurance for oldsters...
...high cost of growing into a 26,000-mile line with 17,000 employees and $57 million in yearly revenues, plus a 25-day pilot strike, drained T.W.A.'s finances. When Frye proposed a new stock issue to get cash, Hughes balked, fearing the dilution of his own interest in T.W.A., and the Hughes-Frye team cracked up in 1947. Jack Frye was out of a job. Always well connected with the Democrats in Washington, Frye got a political plum, the presidency (at $97,000 a year) of the Government-held General Aniline & Film Corp. When political pressures eased...