Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a tone that rarely creeps into Eisenhower messages to Congress, the President last week attacked that costly, archaic contraption, the federal farm-price-support program. Said Ike in his farm message to Congress: ¶ It "has not worked." Most of the money goes to larger producers who need no help. "It does little to help the farmers in greatest difficulty." ¶ It breeds ever bigger surpluses, because high support prices attract capital to supported crops, and soaring farm technology keeps defeating crop-control measures. ¶ It is "excessively expensive." Farm-stabilization costs are running to $5.4 billion this year...
...retaliation, which would reduce the business of the very American company whose continued operation is the alleged goal of the present contract. Critics also point out that earlier the Administration said the dam was not worth constructing, but now it seems that its importance is such that the extra cost of the high bid is unimportant...
During the two weeks he spent in Cambridge, the firm's consultant visited both Harkness and various restaurants in the Square, comparing cost and quality. Lack of choice and the necessity of buying full meals at Harkness were the major faults he uncovered, according to Stewart. Since Harkness uses a higher quality of food and must pay union wages, its prices are not unreasonable, it was found...
...University rallies to the defense of its scholarship and loan programs, pointing out that, generally speaking, scholarships have kept pace with the tuition and board increases. Accepting this, it still means that two-thirds of the class of '59, those without scholarship benefit, have had to bear total cost increases of approximately $650 in the last three years...
Some of these students have proved they can "grin and bear it," but with scholarships and reserve family resources denied them, others have had to find some other way out. Thus, concurrent with the expansion boom, and the cost increases, the loan program has received added emphasis. As proposed by Professor Harris, loans for financing a college education qualify as the answer for a student in any income bracket. But others, like Dean Monro, see the loan program as the answer for those in the middle income group, students caught without a scholarship. And, in Monro's words, the loan...