Word: costes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Level. Before the War the cost of the Federal establishment ran about three-quarters of a billion annually. The War left it perched on a four-billion level. Depression has jacked it up once more. In his opening message to Congress the President said it was impossible to reduce Federal expenditures "much below $7.000,000,000 a year without destroying essential functions or letting people starve...
...Joseph Kennedy (in San Francisco last week to sign a subsidy agreement with big Dollar Steamship Line) announced that he had already signed long-term agreements providing a $7,359,000 annual subsidy to seven U. S. shipping companies which have promised to construct 43 new vessels at a cost...
...Field was abandoned because there were too few enthusiasts and too few cold days to make the expense worth while. But the interest this year shows that the weather is the only stumbling block, and so far it, too, has been cooperative. It does not seen as if the cost of flooding a level ground and building boards around it counterbalance the advantages of a rink, even during a fairly warm winter. For there are a great many days each year when there is no skating on the Charles, while a rink would be crowded. Here, if snow were scraped...
...grocery boy deliver a package of thing which he rather unromantically concluded were probably groceries, the Vagabond turned around briskly, and blinded by the sudden darkness, proceeded to run his finger up and down the card Catalogue until he found it was the back of a girl's checked cost. "Pardon me," he stammered, "I was looking for Gini." "Well, she's not here," came the answer...
...other end of the room was a table with many extra seats to accommodate one's hat, cost, and feet. While the Vagabond stood planning his prospective posture, he found that across from him was a Radcliffe girl who looked almost beautiful. He promptly sat down and nonchalantly fingered the pages of his book, noticing at the same taking voluminous notes, that she really was beautiful, and that he initials were "J> P." He pretended to be working by flipping a page over now and then, but soon gave up and said in a send-bored voice, "Going into...