Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea of supplementing the stern propellers with additional propulsive apparatus to be placed along the sides of the new ships. Reputedly Signor Mussolini is ready to sacrifice all cargo space to engines, subsidize the ships, and use them only for express passenger and mail service. At such a cost-and it would run into millions yearly-Italy could provide herself with two super-ships, presumably so designed as to be converted into warboats of great potency in time of need...
...noiseless typewriter. . . . The transatlantic service begins daily at 8:30 a. m., Eastern Standard Time, ending at 1:30 p. m. Rates: $25 per min.; minimum, three min., maximum twelve min. (though on the second day a Manhattan woman was allowed to chatter along for 28 min., costing $700). The equipment involved cost five millions. The route: New York to Rocky Point, L. I. (land wire), to Wroughton, England (radio), to London (land wire), to Rugby (land wire), to Houlton, Me. (radio), to New York (land wire...
...going to pay the cost of the Hall-Mills case, not because she has any personal desire to solve the financial problem of Somerset county resulting from that litigation, but because she owes certain taxes to the county because of her inheritance, and the county is going to devote the money realized from the inheritance tax to defray the expenses of the case...
Bargain Poetry. One may now buy a pocketful of poets for less than the cost of a novel. Carl Sandburg, Elinor Wylie, Poe, Whitman, Nathalia Crane, H. D.? these are ready, more are coming, prepared in essence on strong paper as a Pamphlet Poet at 25c the pamphlet. Now one may have an anthology piecemeal, buy it on the installment plan and include only his own favorites. The pocketful of U. S. Pamphlet Poets is published by Simon & Schuster. F. A. Stokes has published a British pocketful, including Keats, Shelley, Laureate Bridges...
Long Talk. By mid-January long distance telephone service will be in commission between Manhattan and London (3,500 miles) over a combination of land lines and wireless waves. The cost will be $25 a minute, with a refund in case static blurs the conversation. Since transatlantic cable rates are 22c a word, this means that the person who can distinctly speak more than 115 words a minute will save money by the new way. But he must talk with a low, steady tone, else his voice will be blurred when carried across the chain of hair-adjusted transmitting machines...