Word: costes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YORK, Feb. 9--The Federal government ordered Monday limited bad weather landings by the nek Electra jet-prop airliners. The safety restriction--expected to be only temporary--followed last week's East River crash that cost 65 lives...
...program. Instead, Congress is moving in the direction of handing out $5 billion of mortgage insuring authority for the rest of this fiscal year, $5 billion for next. Nearly dead too, is Ike's idea of cutting out public housing authorizations, of raising the local share of land costs in urban renewal. Democratic housing leaders last week predicted: 1) authorization of 17,500 more public housing units, 2) a six-year, $350 million-a-year urban renewal program, with the Federal Government still paying two-thirds of the cost instead of the gradual reduction to 50% asked...
Cash in the Till. Thornbrough temporarily shut down several U.S. plants, slashed prices of the company's products below cost to clear out inventories, get cash in the till quickly. He streamlined the company by merging the Ferguson and Massey-Harris distribution systems, which often competed with each other, into the new Massey-Ferguson Ltd. He put in tight inventory controls, raised salaries and bonuses of salesmen and branch managers to give them more incentive, brought in a crack young management team to push sales...
...said by its makers to be far more effective than other fire-retarding paints was brought out by Baltimore Paint & Chemical Corp. Called Saf, it stops flames from spreading, insulates interiors against heat by forming a coat of cellular puffs up to an inch thick when touched by fire. Cost...
Steadfast Bra. The first bra on the market with Velcro, the nonmetallic, zipper-like fastener made of thousands of tiny nylon hooks and loops (TIME, Sept. 8), is being test-marketed by Charmfit of Hollywood. The bra fastens in the front, thus can be easily put on. Cost...