Word: costes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...working out its rates. Last week, as the joint House-Senate investigating committee and its counsel, Francis Biddle, squared away to look into this and many another TVA question, the President sent to Congress a long-awaited report from TVA's financial committee on cost allocation. At last they show just where the notches on the Authority's yardstick had been...
...last week in Washington, Mr. Christy's portrait of Mrs. Coolidge may have cost the artist more than most painters earn in a lifetime. When Representative Sol Bloom, director general of the Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission, sponsored a resolution commissioning Mr. Christy to paint a picture called The Signing of the Constitution for $35,000, Representative Allen Treadway of Massachusetts protested: "I do not want to pose as an art critic . . . but I have seen Mr. Christy's portrait of Mrs. Coolidge in a red gown with a white dog and I am opposed to giving him this commission...
...poster, We, the People, had been sold to a Tammany leader of Representative Bloom's district, Congressmen demanded an investigation of the commission, eliminated a $50,000 appropriation for it. Last week, although Representative Bloom protested that $35,000 for the new picture would include the frame and cost of hanging, Congressmen, a bit fed up, rejected the resolution...
...fall in commercial loans, gave bonds a rally quite unlike anything stocks have enjoyed, and the average jumped to 88, has since steadied at 85. Despite this pleasant development, the annual frolic at the Sleepy Hollow Country Club which Wall Street's bond traders enjoyed last week, cost them no sacrifice; for bond buying, like stock buying, is in the doldrums...
Witnessing these doings with quiet satisfaction was the general manager's son, Walter Curtin, who kept a diary. "As I look back on the most enjoyable vacation I ever had," he observes, "it was worth all it cost to have such a wonderful year of silence." Last week, Mr. Curtin, now an Oakland, Calif, businessman, published his diary in a 299-page book which made good reading for its picture of gold-rush days, but which sounded like something by Ring Lardner in its grave, adolescent comments on the turbulent life aboard the Yukoner. Fights and uproar left young...