Word: costes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duty on tobacco was increased 21%, which will mean that a package of popular priced cigarets will now cost about 27? instead of 25? as at present. Another effect: some 350,000 cigaret-vending machines (used mainly after 7 p. m. when all tobacco shops by law must close) are now obsolete...
...Imagine Joe's surprise when he finds that he has to buy, not one but six different catalogues for an aggregate cost of $4.75. Oh, well, it will make the old lady happy, so what the . . .?" > "Mrs. B. reads the catalogue to find out all about the picture. What does she find? What made the artist famous, or why the picture is so valuable . . .? Of course not. There is something about references and where the picture has been shown before. . . ." > "He finds he can't get lunch in the building; and, if he leaves...
...John Llewellyn Lewis showed up in a starched shirt. Before the picture started, everyone stood for The Star-Spangled Banner.* Both tributes were fitting, for Juárez is the most political and patriotic canto in the whole Warner cycle of epic biography. Produced at a cost of $2,000,000, over a period of two years, with the services of six Academy Award winners and a cast of 1,188, it is not only the most ambitious production in Warner history but by all odds the most spectacular picture of the year...
Typically DeMille in its lavishness, Union Pacific officially cost Paramount "more than a million dollars," though it did not, despite Hollywood wags, cost more than the railroad itself. DeMille budgets are the result of an overmastering passion for detail and a policy of shooting everything in sight. Of the 205,000 feet of film exposed for Union Pacific, DeMille and his cutter, Anne Bauchens, threw away all but 12,158. On the set DeMille manipulates his mobs through a special public-address system. When unit directors go to remote locations, he stays in Hollywood, keeps in constant touch by telephone...
...weeks enough cocoons will have come to market for the silk industry to estimate the size of the 1939-40 crop. And upon that size depends: 1) the immediate outcome of the, tightest U. S. silk squeeze in history, 2) the fate of certain speculators, 3) whether the cost of silk stockings on the leg is going to be higher this summer...