Word: costing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...offer. A similar offer of an adjoining site has been made to and accepted by the committee in charge of the British School; the means for building have been secured by them; and, plans having been prepared by Mr. F. C. Penrose, the work of building, at an estimated cost of over L3,000, is already far advanced...
...Professor Ware submitted to the committee, at the meeting held on May 21, 1886, plans for a building and an estimate of its cost. The plans were accepted, with the thanks of the committee, and Mr. S. B. P. Trowbridge, a graduate of Trinity College and of the School of Mines of Columbia College, was appointed to take charge of the erection of the building under Professor Ware's direction. Mr. Trowbridge proceeded to Athens, and ground was broke in the autumn. The corner-stone of the new building was laid on March 12, 1887, with appropriate ceremonies, a full...
...enormous undertaking of spanning the English Channel by a bridge is under consideration in France, and plans have been drawn. The proposed structure will connect Cran-aux-Oeufs with Folkestone, a distance of twenty-two miles. The estimated cost is $200,000,000, and the time required for construction seven years...
...preairing bids for the new library building at Yale, for which S. B. Chittenden, of New York, has given $100,000. The walls will be built of dark Longmeadow stone, with trimmings of a lighter shade, and work will begin this winter if the contracts are made. Its cost will probably be $125,000, and Mr. Chittenden has promised to make up the deficit...
...Eliot Norton, L. S., opened the debate for the affirmative. He dwelt on the necessity of equalizing the cost of manufacture at home and abroad, on the necessity of breaking up trusts and pools which tend to keep prices of articles above their value, and on the necessity of remedying the abuses to which the tariff have been subjected...