Word: costes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Economy, however small, was to have been one accomplishment of this session, and several appropriation bills actually were shaved to establish the principle of shrinking the Budget. But last week the vote-hungry House again liberalized the pension laws for World Warriors and their dependents, at a cost of $18,751,000 to start with, of hundreds of millions in future*-this year's prelude to a general World War pension bill scheduled for next year. And the Senate made a gesture even more expensive toward the farm vote. When economy-minded Senators proposed, in committee, to shave...
...most people this seems to be merely a gross grab for power-terrific cost to Miner Lewis' own followers as well as to the whole U. S. The unreconstructed New York Sun for once thundered for what appeared to be a majority: "THE CALLOUS SELFISHNESS OF JOHN L. LEWIS. When a union calls a nationwide strike . . . that is bound to affect millions " . . that union must be prepared to submit a strong case to the public. . . . What sort of case has John L. Lewis? ... He is willing to see 400,000 miners quit work and millions of the public deprived...
...without hindrance and the Atlantic Seaboard faced no oil shortage comparable to that threatening in coal (see p. 18). For most people, a surprising piece of strike news was that tankers comprise 24% of the U. S. Merchant Marine. Standard Oil of New Jersey with 72 ships (total cost about $70,000,000) operates 17% of U. S. tankers, with its foreign fleets controls 13% of the world's tanker tonnage...
...January 6 a bale of silk (132¼ Ibs.) in Japan cost 840 yen ($229). On March 2 the price hit 1,080 and the Japanese Government stepped in and stopped trading for a few days. Nonetheless, the price climbed to 1,195 yen ($325) on April 19, stood last week at 1,160. When this 40% price rise began, the small group of U. S. branded hosiery makers (such as Gotham and Phoenix) which control their resale prices had already announced their spring prices. For fear that unbranded rivals would undercut them, they did not raise prices and continued...
Seeing the cost to Cambridge to the proposed project would be exceedingly small--$500,000--in comparison to the advantages that would be gained, there is no possible reason why any intelligent Cantabridgian should not sign the city-wide petition. The project will bring not only jobs which will pay union wages to Cambridge laborers but business to Cambridge merchants as well. It will mean that slum areas which are now rapidly depreciating in value will be rehabilitated. Furthermore, the cost to the city of police, fire protection, health service, and delinquency control will be greatly reduced by the abolition...