Word: costes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...depressing aspect of the dispute was that it could have been settled overnight with no apparent injury to either side. It would cost Ben Fairless nothing more to waive his condition of worker contributions. Fairless pointed out that it would cost most of the workers nothing more in the long run to kick in a few cents; many of them were already contributing to pension and insurance funds. Pension money would belong to them as surely as if they had put it in a savings bank...
...supplies would be drawn, in approximately equal parts, from three sources. Such items as trucks, anti-tank guns and radar equipment would have to be built (and paid for at current costs). Jeeps, rifles, ammunition, some types of artillery, and destroyer escorts (the largest ships to be sent to Europe under MAP), would come from the armed forces reserves, established after the war. They would be charged against the program at replacement cost. Other items would come from excess stocks...
...prime movers). It had thousands of 81-mm. mortars, a good many excess tanks (needing guns and radios before shipment), 155-mm. howitzers, scout cars, machine guns and military radios. In all, some $450 million worth of excess materiel was scheduled for Western Europe's armies. Only the cost of rehabilitation-estimated at $77 million-would be charged...
McCloy said he would settle for a mark pegged anywhere between 20? and 24?. After fevered cabling to their capitals, the French and British suggested 27?. McCloy beat the British down to 24?. Then the French proposed two conditions: 1) ending German subsidies that made for export dumping below cost, 2) freezing the price of exported German coal at the pre-devaluation rate. If Germany insisted on raising the export price of coal, then, François-Poncet insisted, the price of inland coal in Germany must also be raised; this would make Germany's steel and other fabricated...
...from school, and so on. Since these auxiliary aids are in some States granted to Catholic parochial schools, the Catholic hierarchy, particularly Cardinal Spellman of New York, has argued that this constitutes discrimination. If a child in a public school gets a bottle of milk at public cost, Spellman says, the government is morally obliged to give a bottle of milk to a Catholic child in his parochial school. These auxiliary aids serve the individual, not the educational institution he happens to attend. The Cardinal has not hesitated to call Representative Barden himself a "now apostle of bigotry...