Word: costes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...80th Congress, the "privileged few," the "vested interests." He recalled that Minnesota had been carved out of Thomas Jefferson's boldly expensive Louisiana Purchase, which he likened to his own plan of expansion: the Fair Deal. Cried Truman: "There are people who contend that these programs will cost too much, just as the reactionaries in Jefferson's day contended that $15 million was too much to pay for a million square miles of new territory. They were wrong in Jefferson's time, and they're just as wrong today...
...typewritten pages of "simplified" explanation by the union. The steelworkers would pay some of their wages-2¼? an hour-into the insurance half of the fund, with Bethlehem chipping in another 2½? an hour for each worker. But the company would have to pay by itself the cost of a liberal pension plan, guaranteeing all 65-year-old steelworkers with 25 years of service minimum retirement pensions of $100 a month. Some would get more. This, Murray estimated, would cost Bethlehem 10? or 12½? an hour for each of its 80,000 steelworkers. In turn, the steelworkers...
...original starry-eyed estimates by government experts had called for a total clearance of 3,210,000 acres of jungle by 1952, at an estimated cost of ?23,975,000 ($67,130,000). Production targets were set at 56,920 tons for 1948, and 277,676 tons for 1949. The ?23 million was spent, all right, but the return added up to peanuts. Only 49,620 acres were planted, which yielded a miserable 2,150 tons of groundnuts and 800 tons of sunflower seeds (planted in rotation with the nuts...
Shoe and bootmaking is a Limmer family tradition. Both Peter's and his wife's fathers were shoemakers, and the present family boasts innumerable shoemaking uncles. He was one of twelve brothers and two unfortunate sisters. Unfortunate, because they cost the family 200 marks and considerable fame...