Word: costing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...production contracts were made between the Government's Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the private corporations on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis. The Government saw no reason why defense contractors should not be allowed to make a profit...
...friendly Liberia, India and Brazil. Synthetic rubber was being produced ahead of schedule at an annual rate of 836,000 tons, more than 25% above the peak prewar imports of rubber. By war's end the Government had built and owned 51 synthetic-rubber plants at a cost of $700 million. These plants were later sold to private industry, and synthetic products now account for over 75% of U.S. rubber consumption...
...survivor, and it now acknowledges at least 250 pending private liability actions, plus further class-action suits demanding billions of dollars in compensation. The company considers such claims to be "outlandish." The Center for Auto Safety, founded by Ralph Nader and Consumers Union, estimates that current liability suits could cost the company as much as $100 million...
...where both her fiancé and his father work as deck hands). Having received the necessary clearance, the couple were married last week on the bridge deck of the good ship Cornelius G. Kolff shortly after the boat left Staten Island on its 25-minute run to Manhattan. The cost of the love boat was modest indeed: members of the wedding and guests were charged the standard 25? ferry fare...
Tenants are not being replaced as they leave the 122 Mt. Auburn St. building, which the University has owned for several years. "The apartments are in bad shape, and besides, whatever we decide to do, it will be more cost-effective if we do it all at once." Sally Zeckhauser, president of Harvard Real Estate, said last week...