Word: costes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basement shelter on a design recommended by the Federal Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (see diagram) could be built by do-it-yourself homeowners for as little as $150, reported the task force. It could be built by a contractor for less than $500. At a small additional cost, perhaps as little as $7 per person, the shelters could be prestocked with enough survival supplies to last through a critical fortnight. Since the intensity of fallout radiation diminishes rapidly, survivors in hard-hit areas could start coming out of their shelters after a fortnight and set about the task...
From an artistic point of view, the picture is exceptional. Words are used as if they cost money. Much of the story is told through the camera lens by hands, lips, eyes, gestures. The film could easily have been sensationalized. Restraint and tasteful selection should be credited to Robert Anderson, who did the script...
...there was a sudden realization by the Saarlanders that they would lose many of the social benefits they had enjoyed under the French welfare state. Though it could be argued that lower German prices would help compensate them, some wage earners muttered that their much-prized German nationality may cost them as much as 20% of their pay after taxes. Such complaints led some West German newspapers, in commenting on the "Little Reunification" with the Saar, to ask soberly whether 17 million East Germans might one day be similarly reluctant to give up Communist welfare privileges for a free economy...
Main problem facing the restorers was to find a substitute for the outer dome (the ornately decorated inner dome will remain in place). Their final answer was enough to make a sultan shudder: it is not gilt, or even silver wash, but a lightweight, gold-anodized aluminum shell (cost: $364,000). Too modern, cried some citizens; too ignoble, said others. "It will look like an ad for an orange drink." snapped one traditionalist. The builders pressed on with their work, hoping to have it finished this fall. Historians pointed out that the Caliph of Damascus had melted down...
...criticisms of the Bureau of Labor Statistics is that its cost-of-living index should actually be called the cost-of-living-better index. By reporting only selling prices and failing to identify quality improvements, the BLS long has given a distorted picture of what actually is happening in U.S. living conditions. This week, in a monumental 253-page book. How American Buying Habits Change (U.S. Government Printing Office; $1), the BLS handsomely made amends. It summarized the upgrading in the life of the average U.S. workingman since the bureau's first survey...