Word: costs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...compared the different kinds of engines used. In running a power plant it is the fixed charges that must be watched closely, and Mr. Rhodes figured that the average fixed charges per annum for the various different engines amounts to 12 1-2 per cent. of the initial cost, the distribution being as follows: interest, 6 per cent.; depreciation, 5 per cent.; and insurance and taxes, 1 1-2 per cent. Since the fixed charges are so important there has been a tendency of late to make the engines carry as large a load as possible, in other words...
...average number of those who have been regular boarders at the Yale Dining Hall so far this year is $50 per week. The average cost for each man is $5.37 per week and the number of guests and transients falls far below Memorial, there being an average of only 620 per week...
...average number eating at the Princeton Commons this year is 760 per week, the cost per man is $5.50, and the number of guests is comparatively small
...engineers of the Park Commission and the architects are now preparing the working drawings and the specifications of the new, drawless Boylston street bridge. Meanwhile an act has been passed placing in the hands of the Park Commission the authority to build approaches not costing over $30,000 each, the cost of these approaches being borne by the cities of Boston and Cambridge, respectively. Although the consent of both cities is necessary, no difficulty is expected in obtaining...
...hoping that by that time the hockey management may have so arranged matters that there will be a strong inducement for a greater number of undergraduates to gather at the games than has been present at most of them during the past season. Not only would the lessened cost attract many to whom the cost may now be prohibitive, but the ease of securing tickets and the feeling that one is going to sit in a Harvard crowd would bring many to the games who now hate to bother with special tickets for each game and feel out of place...