Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University's announcements of increases in the cost of education have followed one another so rapidly the last four years, that students are some-times tempted to ignore the specific reasons given for the rises and, in their affluent complacency, accept them as part of the general inflationary trend of the times...
...bureau figured that in six nights of tests, fishermen netted enough herring to more than pay for the total cost ($2,802) of all the extra apparatus...
...exhibition at Manhattan's Wildenstein Gallery of outstanding pictures drawn from its collection and its regular biennial roundup of contemporary U.S. paintings in Washington. Founder William Wilson Corcoran was a Washington banker so rich and so well connected financially that he could and did underwrite much of the cost of the Mexican War (1846-48). While new-rich American collectors of the 19th century were turning almost exclusively to European art, Corcoran himself chose to concentrate on the new American painters. Stabs and grabs at Europe by later benefactors have filled the Corcoran (on Washington's 17th Street...
...film and theater companies, reported that while the combined gross came to a whopping $1,102,500,000 for 1958, business was still off $26 million from the previous year. Most surprising success of the moviemaking year: Columbia's Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, which cost a mere $660,000, has taken in $6,000,000 since it opened in December. ¶ For a cool $75,000, Harold Minsky's burlesque show (38 girls, three comedians) flew to Chicago from Las Vegas' swank Dunes Hotel to put on one performance for 1,200 conventioneers from the National Homebuilders...
More Jobs v. Less Cost. Senator Scott made no bones of the fact that he had kept the pressure on the Defense Department and the White House, arguing that B.L.H. should get the award because Philadelphia was then an area of "substantial unemployment." But under a 1954 Executive Order by President Eisenhower, even substantial unemployment is not a valid argument if a domestic company's bid is 12% or more above the lowest foreign bid. B.L.H.'s bid was 21% higher than English Electric's. ODCM Chief Leo Hoegh got around that by arguing that a contract...