Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commons rendered the college independent of private boarding houses, so the buttery removed all just occasions for resorting to the different marts of luxury intemperance and rain. This was a kind of supplement to commons and offered for sale to students, at a moderate advance on the cost, wines, liquors, groceries, stationery and in general, such articles as it was necessary and proper for them to have occasionally, and which for the most part, was not included in the commons fare...
...they met in nearby coffee taverns. By 1817 public participation in corporate enterprises had grown to the point where the brokers found it expedient to rent the front room on the second floor of the house of one George F. Vaupell at No. 40 Wall St. It cost $200 but this included fire, chairs and ordering the room when necessary...
...Association resolved, on a motion by Chester Welde Cuthell, chairman of its committee on air law that Congress should legislate to give the U. S. Department of Commerce authority to regulate transoceanic flights, in which more than two dozen lives have been lost this year, at a great cost to aviation's prestige and to agencies that must hunt for lost flyers. Secretary...
...could be dug by laborers in heat proof, air-cooled suits, and connected by long horizontal passages. At five miles, a heat between 400° and 450° would be obtained. Capable of producing 4,500 horsepower, this type of heat mine would function for 1,-000 years, would cost about 30 millions but never need an ounce of fuel...
...they found many hundreds of thousands of counterfeit safety razor blades, modeled on the Gillette design, ready to be wrapped in tasteful green wrappers with the handsome portrait and the two legends. At other hiding places, raiders seized more of the imitations; two million blades in all, which had cost perhaps $10,000 to manufacture out of cheap metal, which would have retailed as genuine Gillette blades...