Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles' fringes, e.g., profits from sales of the convention program, hotel and working space for the convention staff. Going home to prepare for the first political convention in the city's history, happy Angelenos looked forward to snagging a second. With TV networks lobbying for a cost-cutting pair of conventions in the same hall, the G.O.P. might also choose Los Angeles' new sports arena...
...forbidden zones" of Algeria where the F.L.N. bases its units. Fortnight ago 12,000 French troops, supported by artillery and rocket-carrying fighter planes, surrounded and wiped out two companies of rebel troops. In one week the French claimed to have killed a total of 672 rebels at a cost of 46 French dead...
...miles northwest by truck to the Valley. On top of a rocky crest, a great white cross reached 500 ft. into the air. From artists' studios and artisans' workshops came statues of alabaster, doors of bronze, choir benches with medieval-style carvings, a main gate that alone cost $62,000. In 1956 the Valley was all but finished, but by that time it had begun to cause the Generalissimo considerable embarrassment...
...arms were whatever the world's dealers had to offer-Italian sporting rifles, ancient Mausers, nickel-plated revolvers, Springfields, Garands and carbines. Delivered, they cost an average of $1,000 each. Castro handled each munitions shipment with care and glee before passing it on to new recruits. "Bullets come by vintages, like wine," he explained, "especially Latin American bullets. Mexican '55 is a good year, '52 not so good...
...year struggle. Máximo ("The Fox") Gómez and Antonio ("The Lion") Maceo rallied 26,000 Cubans to the "Grito de Yara [Cry of Yara]" and fought a hit-and-run war. In 1878 the Spaniards offered political reforms, then betrayed their promises. The Ten Year War cost 258,000 lives...