Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...priced skilled mechanics, improved machinery and industrial management. We will always have the small farm in the United States, but the western country, known as the Great Plains Area, where the rainfall is limited to 15 inches, can only be successfully farmed on the large production basis with low cost of operation per acre...
...Cost. "The present cost of medical education, the number of years before men can be selfsupporting, and the age at which students graduate, averaging around 27, are driving many bright men into other professions."?Dr. Mayo...
...Henry Ford in 1921, according to onetime Ford Sales Manager Norval A. Hawkins. Salesman Hawkins testified further: "Mr. duPont knew that if Mr. Ford wanted to he could sell his car so cheap as to make Chevrolet high priced." In 1912 the Ford company could have sold cars at cost and still earned $1,325,000 or 66% on its then capitalization of $2,000,000. Today the company can sell cars at cost and profit from the sale of parts. In 1919 its parts profits were $80,000,000. Now there are 12,000,000 Fords on the road...
...Philadelphia, 200 lb. of solid carbon dioxide replaced 3,000 lb. of water ice and 600 lb. of salt. For shipping frozen fish from Manhattan to Detroit, 1,200 lb. of carbon dioxide supplanted 17,000 lb. of ice and 1,700 lb. of salt. The slightly higher cost of "dry ice" was much more than offset by the gain in space available for pay freight and the cleanliness and ease of handling...
...They promised him, he said, three millions "out of my inheritance" . . . then withdrew support "and left me holding the bag." Hearstly screamers broadcast this implied perfidy, together with a picture of Mr. Vanderbilt Sr.'s yacht, Atlantic, and a touching reference to the $4,000 per day it cost to operate her. At the head of a column in his admittedly vulgar N. Y. Mirror, Publisher Hearst was pleased to print young Mr. Vanderbilt's name and portrait. Young Mr. Vanderbilt's column, headed Now, was modeled after the Brisbanal TODAY in other Hearst sheets. Whenever possible...