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Word: costes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...originally told Congress the building would cost $250.000. So far, after several changes of plan, it has cost $544,000. Per cubic foot it cost 43½?, compared to 20? per cubic foot for the nearby Federal Building. Of 1,049 workers on the project's pay roll, only 17.7% were Reliefers; the balance was high-paid labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Hot Pan | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...head man, well knew that the Woodrum committee's inquiry was the hottest pan WPA has yet been on, that, in the Senate, Jimmy Byrnes was quietly preparing to amend the Relief setup so as to require States and localities to contribute one-third of the cost. Awaiting his turn to testify before the Woodrum committee. Colonel Harrington spent a busy week getting 200.000 cut off his rolls to bring them down to 2,600.000. He knew this could not be done without local disturbances. Sure enough, in Flint. Mich., 750 families cut off relief established a "death watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Hot Pan | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...successful surgeon with his own private practice is Professor Bertram Bernheim of Johns Hopkins. But he does not have much faith in the U. S. system of private medical care. He sees the public asking for more adequate, low-cost medical service, sees national health insurance coming, and he wants his colleagues to prepare for the future, lest laymen take over "the big business of medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Terrible Old Reactionary | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...used on no other American plane, but Britain's geodetic Vickers Wellesley bombers are among the finest in the world, hold the longdistance flight record of 7,162 miles. By using spruce, of which Oregon has plenty, instead of metal weaving strips, Greenwood-Yates have cut the cost of frame material for a single airplane to $50, are able to build it lighter than with steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Flying Basket | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...average life of an airplane in war service will be only 30 hours, so Greenwood-Yates backers think that bigger Geodetics with larger engines may have a military future. Meanwhile, with a single-engined plane that sells at $1.900, a two-motored job at $3,500 (it would cost $1,000 more in metal), they intend to go after the small plane market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Flying Basket | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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