Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bourke of the Imperial Tobacco Co. to the Royal Customs Commission, which sat at Montreal last fortnight. The smuggling cost the Canadian government $7,800,000 to $10,000,000 in revenues, he reckoned. His remedy: "Stop it [smuggling] by reducing the excessive taxes on Canadian cigarets...
...cost, according to U. S. Government figures for the academic year 1923-24, $140,000,000 to operate the schools of the nation. Of this student tuition and related fees paid less than half. A quarter came from endowments; another quarter from gifts...
...cabling congratulations to Pilot Chamberlin. Said The Day (Jewish daily published in Manhattan) : "At last we, too, are convinced of the great economy of our President. He is so parsimonious, he watches so closely the cash register of Uncle Sam that even the great sum of about 66c (the cost of cabling three words to Germany) is of importance...
Otto H. Kahn last week had delivered to him his new, triple-engined motorboat Okeha II, great, comfortable vessel, of the type that a score of Manhattan financiers have been buying to carry them swiftly from Long Island Sound summer homes to Manhattan docks. Mr. Kahn's boat cost him approximately $85,000; costs more than $100 daily to operate...
...with brains and character but without means". The tremendous increase in the number of young people desirous of a university education makes admission requirements a necessity, but a high tuition covering expenses should not be included among such restrictions. Tuition fees should gradually be raised to cover the cost of instruction. A loan fund could then be established with the endowment funds now used to cover the difference between the cost of education and the tuition income. To the man with means it would mean abolishing a system of philanthropy which is neither added nor wanted...