Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louis XVI. To Marie Antoinette the sly Ludwig pays less attention. He must not rouse the husband's suspicions ?clever Ludwig! She will slip away soon enough to the great bed, large enough for six, on which mad Ludwig lies beneath a gold embroidered coverlet which cost 2,000,000 gold marks...
Secondly the Cabinet cut wages, lopped off from 30% to 100% of the "high cost of living bonuses" which were extended to State employes a year ago. No Government ever took a step more daring, more dangerous. No U. S. statesman would dare cut so much as the salaries of all letter carriers. Yet there was no loud, visible upheaval In Italy last week...
...last week at the Nebraska Agricultural College as a potential revolution in the farming world. It will enable the tiller of the soil to go to the cinema or drink cider or sleep, while his fields are being plowed. It will soon be put on the market at a cost of a few dollars. It is the invention of F. L. Zybach of Grand Island...
...Automobile Club revealed, following investigation of a man arrested for driving at 45 m.p.h., that 17 of the 52 inmates of a local insane asylum had automobile driving licenses and used them during suspension periods. The 45-m.p.h.-man believed that at that speed his motor ran at no cost, being actuated by the power of a foreign spirit...
Harvard students are to have a new dormitory hotel called the Varsity, privately owned and operated, to be erected at a cost approaching $400,000. The new building will have elevators, showers in each suite, and all the trimmings. Porters and servants will be at the service of the occupants, and maids and bell-boys will be available at all times...