Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samuel, it was all right for U. S. people, with "wealth to burn," to indulge in the "habit," but he "earnestly" hoped that "the honorable gentlemen whom I am now addressing" would see to it that the practice was limited; for, said he, goods so bought "neither earn their cost nor redeem themselves out of earnings," and sales so made are "a drug to trade...
...miners demanded an increase of 2½c an hour, equivalent to a 12½% rise on an average eight-hour weekly wage of $9.60, which, considering the high cost of living in the Reich, is unqualifiedly asserted to be far below decent living...
...industry is to a great extent run on borrowed capital and therefore has high interest charges to meet, they cannot afford to increase the level of wages, despite the fact that the total sum involved for the entire industry is something less than $100,000, unless they raise the cost to the consumer, and this the government, which controls mining, will not let them...
Fatal weakening of the defense in crucial moments cost the Harvard Freshman Soccer team its game with Andover yesterday afternoon on Soliders Field. In the first three minutes of play, Andover scored two goals before the Freshmen warmed to their work. The first-year men then tightened their defense, and kept the schoolboys at bay. The Freshmen scored once in the middle of the game, but let down in the last five minutes of play, and allowed Andover to tally twice again. The final score stood 4 to 1 in favor of the schoolboys...
...presentation of the lumber industry as one of eight major business enterprises to be studied in Business Policy 12 this year, the Business School has obtained the cost records and full operation data of a lumber firm in Seattle, Washington, and will have officials of the company come to Cambridge as speakers. The firm, whose name is withheld, has been undergoing heavy financial losses in a period of great building activity, and a study of this paradox, with an effort to solve the problem, will occupy the students in the course for the next month...