Word: costes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ministry decided to purchase from the U. S. 250 fighting planes, in addition to the 400 ordered last summer. Cost of the 650: about...
...year-old mistress-though he was grateful enough that the ogling coal dealer neglected to leave a bill. To keep her at home he did the marketing himself, dressed in the cap, espadrilles and blue jeans of a workman, plus a famous white-polka-dotted red shirt that cost him less than two francs. The mystic poet, Max Jacob, helped Picasso, who steadfastly refused to do any "commercial" work. A terrific and efficient worker, to avoid interruptions Picasso soon took to painting all night, a habit which may have had something to do with the blueness of the Blue Period...
...writer in his spare time (From Nudity to Raiment), Hiler was also a great cafe sitter with Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Man Ray. He knew the Left Bank like the bottom of his glass. In 1934, when the dollar fell so low that a whiskey neat cost 72? in Paris, Hiler announced, "The position is untenable," and started home...
There, on an acre of soil-tested land apiece, 60 modern houses will be built-a two-bedroom size at $4,500, three-bedroom at $5,300. Total cost for the 60 families will be $300,000, financed jointly by the workers, Armco and FHA. To keep costs down, the 60 are now forming their own building company...
...estimated shortage of 2,000 houses in and around the Clairtown area, the building firm of Gilbert-Varker, Inc. persuaded Big Steel to cooperate in erecting a 300-house, 92-acre subdivision known as Colonial Village. FHA got behind 80% of the project's $1,314,000 total cost, local investment bankers did the rest. Costing $4,200 to $4,800 each, the houses use as much as 7,000 lbs. of steel, compared to the 2,380 Ibs. in the usual small dwelling...