Word: costes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Because the U. S. Navy's experiments with mechanically operated doors seemed to show that they are complicated and apt to jam, all doors for personnel in Navy ships are worked by hand. The U.S.S. Washington, which will cost $66,000,000 when completed, will be no exception...
...South Carolina's General Assembly put skids under this impediment by voting to the Public Service Authority a new right of eminent domain, subject to price verdicts by arbitrators. Last week Governor Maybank knocked out the last chock by signing this bill and the Santee-Cooper project, to cost...
...December 1926 there were 64,949 locomotives in the U. S. Today there are less than 44,000 and some 42,000 of them were bought before 1929, 30,000 before 1920. Meanwhile, insolvent roads "economize" by spending four and five times the cost of a new locomotive in piecemeal repairs to hopelessly obsolescent engines, although new freight engines would work 75-125,000 miles a year instead of 30-40,000 miles as the old ones do, would bring operating savings great enough to pay for themselves in a few years. Particularly true is this of Diesel switchers (which...
When last week's Derby was over, the bookmakers were a gloomy lot. Blue Peter had finished four lengths ahead of the field, had cost them more than $5,000,000. But there never was a more popular victory. Leading his colt to the winner's circle, Albert Edward Harry Meyer Archibald Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery, grinned from ear to ear, told reporters that the silks his jockey wore in the race had belonged to his father, had been discovered in an old trunk during house-cleaning a few weeks before...
...could easily have produced The Mikado in Hollywood without paying royalties to the D'Oyly Carte Company, which owns the English rights. Instead, he went abroad to collaborate with Producer Toye, who got the D'Oyly Carte's wholehearted cooperation. The Mikado cost about $1,000,000. Newcomers to Gilbert & Sullivan in its cast are pretty little Jean Colin (Yum-Yum) and Kenny Baker (Nanki-Poo), U. S. radio singer imported for the part. Of Baker the unmollified London Times remarked: "He seems to have learnt English in some place nearer to Japan than London...