Word: costes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Felix Frankfurter's decision will cost him $1,435 of his $20,000 salary. Justice McReynolds, not voting in the 8-0 opinion, will as a bachelor pay more than any other justice: $1,660. Chief Justice Hughes' bill...
...Last week a State Department official estimated that the royal visit would cost the U. S. Treasury about $15,000 in direct expenses (train fares, state dinner...
...optimists from the start, Milo Perkins & colleagues were moderately pleased by the early showing in Rochester. Of the 8,600 local Reliefers who received their checks, 3,900 had purchased stamps during the first three days. Total cost to them (for orange stamps): $29,026 to which the U. S. added $14,513 for blue stamps. After the first rush, stamp sales noticeably slackened, and Relief officials concluded that many of their clients would require much "education" before they would give up regular money for pretty pieces of paper. One in four of Rochester's WPAsters volunteered to accept...
...girls for spiritual and moral upbuilding, to teach love of country and flag . . . home, parents and elders." Just to be sure, he asked Historians Charles C. Tansill (America Goes to War), Bernard Mayo (Henry Clay) and Political Scientist W. Reed West to check up on him. That caution probably cost Patriot Upham a sumptuous monument. Last week Colonel Moss penitently announced that Francis Bellamy wrote The Pledge...
Constructed from Leonardo's drawings, at a cost of $250,000, were more than 200 models of his inventions, in almost all of which he anticipated later inventors. Some of the contraptions: a jack (see cut); a turnspit driven by the draft of a chimney; a machine for cutting files and rasps; a printing press with movable type; an olive oil press such as is still used in Italy; a pile driver; an automatic saw; an automatic gear, like the differential in an automobile; a flying machine, whose bird-like wings were supposed to be powered by the operator...