Word: costs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...these same conditions that the Government has found it necessary to increase rates and terminate the crushing force of overburdening restrictions. People may find increases in rates oppressive, but they must not fail to realize that increased railroad wages and the elimination of sub-normal charges mean an increased cost of operation...
...serving abroad in one of the recognized forms of auxiliary service, a small medal--a sort of pocket-piece or lucky penny--on which appears the name of it holder and a few words testifying to the university's appreciation of what he is doing for his country. The cost of each token is only about thirty cents. A coin of the same character was carried by Minnesota men in the Spanish War, and proved a token of association highly valued at the time and ever since...
...which to do their work. They rush to the yards and the factories in response to the call and find not only no place provided for them to live, but no protection from the sharks who take advantage of the demand for rooms and houses to raise all the cost of living. It is no wonder that we have a disastrous turn-over of labor. Nor is anything done to protect and care for their ordinary needs, nothing for their women and children for the social side of their life...
...fact that our late entrance into the war forbade our participation in anything more glorious than a triumphal march of occupation. For 1918 the outlook is changed. We see Russia reduced to impotence and the allied armies on the west front evacuating the positions won at so much cost in 1916 and 1917. We, know now that every combatant regiment overseas or training at home will suffer casualties in battle before triumphal marches signalize German defeat...
Last spring the Red Book borrowed $700 of the Class Fund and of this amount $460 has already been repaid, leaving the Sophomores a balance to draw from in case it is decided to invest more of the funds in the third Liberty Loan, although the cost of the recent smoker will necessarily lessen the balance to a certain extent...