Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Times was not vague. Said the Times: "While in office he was indicted for a get-rich-quick-scheme. ... If he will go before the grand jury and tell the whole truth [about corrupt Indiana politics], regardless of whom it may affect and whatever it may cost ... he will have performed a public service that will do much to wipe out the stain upon his own name." Indeed soon after his release, the Marion Grand Jury† planned to call Mr. McCray to testify on the subject of the Klu Klux Klan offer alleged to have been made...
...Mackay Companies might need in the doing of its business. On such equipment Federal Telegraph is to make a 25% profit and also a royalty on the pieces of apparatus used by the Mackay Companies. Further, the Mackay Companies obligated itself, through its Radio Communication, to pay half the cost of Federal Telegraph's research laboratories. The arrangement is quite like that kept by Western Electric Co. and the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Federal Telegraph had assets, Dec. 31, 1925, of $5,715,383 and net operating profits for that year of $117,061. The acquisition of Federal Telegraph...
...this party are mostly the large land owners, the small farmer often belonging to the Labor group or the Republicans. In general it supports the government because the government opposes tariff protection. The farmers argue that they cannot afford protection because it would restrict their markets and increase the cost of agricultural machinery, imported mainly from Great Britain...
...flow of items which bubble up each morning to attract the newspaper reader. The latest project is a New York-to-Chicago airway; there to connect with the Chicago-and-San Francisco planes, already operating. The fare will be $400; the flying time 32 hours. Trains take 90 hours; cost...
...Honolulu to Shanghai can handle only 100 letters per minute. The proposed Western Union cable will carry 2,500 letters per minute. But it did not seem likely that Commercial would install improved equipment over the 9,100-mile route to meet its competitor. To do so would cost Commercial perhaps 16 millions and the job might not be finished before Western Union was ready to operate in the field...