Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should Mr. Blackmer's stay in France be prolonged beyond the date of the Fall-Sinclair trial, set to open in the District of Columbia Supreme Court on Oct. 17, his absence may cost him $100,000. For in 1925 Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, head of the Senatorial investigating committee which had discovered that it was not oil wells that truth lay at the bottom of, secured the passage of a law empowering the Senate committee to summon witnesses from abroad. Furthermore, the law provided that a person refusing to honor such summons be judged guilty...
...hydro-electric power. "The Shannon," said Minister Smiddy, briskly, "is the largest river in Ireland and larger than any in England. . . . An hydroelectric installation is being effected in two stages. With completion of the first stage there will be available in 15 months 90,000,000 horsepower at a cost of $26,000,000, thus ultimately bringing light and cheer into every Free State village of a population above...
...largest dining-room on any steamer, a vast salon, 1,000 square metres in area,* covered with a carpet which cost 1,000,000 francs, ventilated by 112 portholes...
...will be made in seven and a half hours. The fare (one way) will be in the neighborhood of $60-50% greater than railroad fare. Each plane will carry twelve passengers, a pilot-navigator and a steward who will serve meals, operate the radio and be emergency pilot. The cost of each plane, equipped with three Wright Whirlwind motors, will be $28,500. The company will be financed by A. R. Martine of the Bankers' Service Co., Manhattan...
Because wages constitute three-fifths of the cost of producing films, General Manager Richard A. Rowland of First National Pictures Corp. said last week that his company also would reduce wages to a degree as then not determined. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and 13 other companies are expected to follow suit. Altogether, these producers will save very near to $10,000,000 a year on their payrolls...