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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of standard books including several sets have been put on a bargain counter, at cost prices or less...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Co-operative Society Bulletin. | 5/17/1887 | See Source »

...showed that our treasury had been badly depleted by the Oxford race expenses, and that it would be very hard work raising the funds necessary to defray the expenses of a trans-Atlantic trip. Therefore, before any propositions were made to Harvard, it was thought proper to ascertain the cost of the trip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Cambridge Crew. | 5/7/1887 | See Source »

...Edinburgh University students are erecting at a cost of $75,000 a Students' Union, after the plan of the Unions at the English universities. It is to contain a library, gymnasium, reading, dining and club rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/7/1887 | See Source »

...Australia the mileage cost is $50,000 a mile. In Germany it is $100,000. The $50,000 Australian roads are on a level with poorly equipped American roads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Hadley's Lecture. | 5/5/1887 | See Source »

...clear why the German roads have cost twice as much as our roads. There has been more paid for fences and the like, but not so much for roadbeds. In Australia the price of raw materials is cheaper, and there are no heavy grades to construct. In both countries speed and comfort cannot compare with that in America. The waste in construction in this country is balanced by inefficiency of public service in Germany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Hadley's Lecture. | 5/5/1887 | See Source »

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