Word: costes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the development of Alnico and other "age-hardening" alloys like it, permanent magnets were all quenched steels. In the newer alloys "magnetic hardness" is obtained by slow, controlled cooling. They provide more magnetic force at lower cost. The increased power of the Alnico magnet shown last week, designed by Physicist Wayne E. (for nothing) McKibben, is due to a steel sheath around it, which efficiently concentrates the magnetic flux very much as an optical lens focuses rays of light...
...cost of getting Community Concerts into operation was $140,000. Judson regards this sum as a loan to Community's artist-clients, which they are gradually "repaying." Their "debt" still amounts...
...that not more than 5% of WPA's present 3,000,000 clients should be cut off the rolls before April 1; 2) that the President might request a further WPAppropriation before June 30 if he perceives another "emergency" and can define it. *He expected that its cost (but not the interest on the investment) would eventually be repaid by ship tolls...
...path of the hurricane that swept New England last fall were, among other things, several State teachers' colleges of which Mr. Reardon has charge. To repair the damage to them, it was estimated by the Education Department's business agent, one George H. Varney, would cost $16,500. When contracts for hurricane repair work, signed by Mr. Reardon, reached $410,232, the Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers Association decided to investigate. What the federation discovered caused Attorney General Paul Dever to investigate and stop payment on most of the contracts and Governor Saltonstall last fortnight to demand Mr. Reardon...
...five major cinema-producing companies, about 300 theatres, which show both Chinese and Hollywood films. Three of the Chinese companies make pictures in Cantonese (South China) dialect, two in classical Mandarin (North China) dialect. Chinese movie stars are borrowed from the Chinese stage and music halls. Average picture-production cost is about $15,000. Invasion by Japan has not interrupted Chinese cinema production. While Sable Cicada, which took two years to make, was in production at Shanghai, the studio was bombed twice. (Studio officials kept blueprints of the sets so that, in case of serious damage, they could be promptly...