Word: costes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also set $35,000 as the maximum individual payment in any calendar year. The House offered a choice of planting full acreage at 50% of parity, or 75% of acreage at 90%, made $50,000 the maximum payment. Agriculture Department experts estimated that the Senate bill would cost an additional $150 million to $200 million, the House bill $110 million. The U.S., with no acceptable legislation in sight, could prepare for another scandalous surplus...
...Vargas, a burly, outspoken career officer who rose through the ranks to become the Philippine Republic's first three-star general. Vargas, 54, won his countrymen's respect for his ability, honesty and stubborn determination to keep the Filipino army out of politics. Last week these virtues cost General Vargas his job as Philippine Defense Secretary...
...issue is a $400 million question-more or less the cost of replacing the outmoded Sabre jets flown by eight Royal Canadian Air Force overseas squadrons with 200 to 300 supersonic fighters. In their time, the Canadian-built Sabres, along with four squadrons of still useful Avro CF-100s, helped Canada's air division gain recognition as NATO's finest. But interceptors are fast becoming obsolete and the Canadian division a token force...
Lights burned late in the frame and concrete-block garages along the infield of the sprawling, 515-acre racing track on the northwest outskirts of Indianapolis. Mechanics toiled over the expensive (cost: $20,000 and up), low-slung cars, built specifically with the big brick-paved track in mind. This week 33 of the world's fastest racers will roar 500 miles around the Brick Yard in quest of fame and some $300,000 in prize money...
...Germany went to work. Last week a three-man team headed by Bonn University Chemistry Professor Friedhelm Korte, who also runs a Shell oil company laboratory in suburban Bonn, announced it had at last synthesized Iridomyrmecin. Cautioned a Shell spokesman: "We cannot say how much the new stuff will cost and when it will be marketed, because we do not know ourselves...