Word: costes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the 1920's when money was easy and the University's budgets were expanding, a great many young men were taken on the faculty. It was not then calculated how much money it would cost were the University to accommodate the enlarged permanent staff which would result if all these men were promoted. This increase was then possible because of the financial situation, which was very favorable...
...snow cruiser is an automotive dreadnaught 55 ft. long, designed and built by Chicago's Armour Institute at a cost of $150,000. It has a machine shop and a photographic darkroom, can carry an airplane on its back. Rolling on four retractable, rubber-tired wheels ten feet in diameter, it cruises at 10 m.p.h. (top speed 25 m.p.h.), can straddle and cross crevasses 15 ft. wide...
...Government's worry over the breakdown of its educational system was added another worry-evacuation's cost. The Government pays ten shillings, sixpence a week for each child's keep. Last week, evacuation's bill having risen already to well over $500,000,000, the Ministry of Health was considering imposing a means test, making families that could afford it pay for their children's country board...
...knitted into full-fashioned women's hosiery. The Japanese have observed that, at least in cities, U. S. women cannot do without silk stockings, and silk stockings wear out continually so that even a temporary buyers' strike is next to impossible. So by last week raw silk cost U. S. hosiers as much as $3.55½ a nine-year peak price, up nearly $1 since August, up $1.75 since December. U. S. silkmen were full of confusion, distress, suspicion. Many a silkman was caught in short positions by a sudden, savage shortage. Some types of silk were...
...should have no illusions. This war will probably not be won by money, good wishes, or airplanes. The starvation of 1917-1918 and the following one due to the continuing blockade between the Armistice and the Versailles Treaty, claimed in itself by German agricultural economists of repute to have cost the lives of 800,000 Germans, taught Germany one lesson. For twenty years they have been preparing with their potatoes, sweet lupine, and other crops and measures to assure themselves a permanent endurable food supply over a many year sea blockade. Soldiers alone, either those of the enemy...