Word: costes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cost more sweat and legislative pain than any other act since Taft-Hartley. Jack Kennedy's political prestige was committed to the relatively mild Kennedy bill (even though it had been beefed up in a floor fight led by Arkansas' John McClellan), and the Kennedy bill passed the Senate 90-1. President Eisenhower's power and prestige were committed to the sterner bill sponsored by Georgia Democrat Phil Landrum and Michigan Republican Robert Griffin which he had bulled through the House (229-201) with his effective television appeal (TIME, Aug. 17). Few old hands on Capitol Hill...
...size of the enterprise is staggering. From less than 16 million in 1900, enrollment has jumped to 36 million. From less than $215 million in 1900, the annual cost has soared to $14.4 billion (about 3% of the Gross National Product). Of all U.S. families, 40% have one or more children in public school.*Of all living Americans, one out of five is a public-school student...
...high schools because they cost less (no labs or shops needed). The teachers are paid less; the schools are not always citadels of learning. And the problems of combustible half adolescents in the seventh and eighth grades are one of the key blind spots in education...
MISSILE-INCENTIVE contract at cost of $29,209,851 was won by General Electric Co. to build Thor IRBM nose cones. First Air Force incentive contract in missile field will mean bigger profits if G.E. effects production savings and exceptional product performance...
High-Speed Film. A still-camera film 15 times faster than its present film was put on sale by the Polaroid Corp. for use with Polaroid Land cameras, which take, develop and print photos in 60 seconds. With a low-cost ($17.95) "wink light" that fills in background shadows and replaces flashbulbs, the new film takes pictures in table-lamp light. Cost: $1.79 per eight-exposure roll...