Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours later the cruiser screen of the Atlantic fleet was sighted, tearing through the spume at 20 knots. As the fleet deployed into line of battle canvas targets were towed into place. Twenty 15-inch guns boomed simultaneously-at a cost for this single broadside of roughly...
...third of the memorial's cost will be borne by the estate of the late U. S. Ambassador to Japan, Edgar Addison Bancroft at whose instigation it is being constructed. His friend and fellow Chicago attorney Henry M. Wolf (of Judah, Willard, Wolf, and Reichmann) has contributed another third. Viscount Shibusawa having made up the rest, the monument partakes of a binational character soothing to the feelings of Japanese unfriendly to the U. S. The present U. S. Ambassador Charles MacVeagh moreover greatly resembles his very generally popular predecessor, Ambassador Bancroft. The names of both men are identified with...
...Cardinal Mazarin*) is worth $50,000; he has on his shelf the first edition of Venus and Adonis, the oldest existing edition of any work by Shakespeare. He has, in short, the most valuable collection of first editions in the world, and the most complete Americana. (To catalogue it cost $40,000.) These things and his magnificent 500-acre home at San Marino will go at his death to the government, together with a trust fund to preserve them and add to them...
...Despite the intellectual salutation of Mr. White Calf, the assemblage did not have the air of a racial group gathered around their school as around a centre of sweetness and light. Prime upon the program were a buffalo barbecue and dancing in the new stadium (which cost $250,000 and was given entirely by Indians) - dancing of a nature which moved local ministers to protest that it "tended to cultivate the baser instincts of the Indian...
...crispness: "I have always maintained that the solution of the European problem does not lie in a group of men sitting around a table and figuring out what somebody owes; it lies in the introduction of 2,000,000 Fords and 2,000,000 telephones to cut down the cost of transportation, break down the barriers of language, religion, custom and prejudice. ... I think the most impressive fact in the last year's experience in business is that the industry shipped over 700,000 automobiles to foreign countries." One man was exceedingly happy at the convention. He was Thomas...