Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last session Congress passed the Porter Bill which provides for the gradual acquisition and construction of Official residences for U. S. ambassadors and ministers. It is obvious that the next step may well be the adoption of a system of adequate allowances for the diplomats, based on the cost of living in various capitals...
...Minn., agreed to adopt standards. Dr. W. P. Morrill, Columbia Hospital, Washington, complained of the increasing price of catgut (for operations), due, he said, "to the control of the raw material by packers and an apparent intent on their part to attempt to control the manufacture of this product." Cost of Cure. The most impor tant problem facing hospital administration is the caring for people of moderate means who can not afford the cost of private rooms in hospitals and do not wish to suffer what seemed to them the humiliation of free wards. Alba Boardman Johnson, onetime...
Into Paris last week chugged a 14-passenger motor bus, back from a 3,280-mile turn around France. Its fuel cost had been only $15. The Bleriot Co. (headed by M. Louis Bleriot, first man ever to fly over the English Channel (TIME, Aug. 30) posted advertisements beside the bus in the Paris National Automobile Exposition setting forth that it would henceforth manufacture this conveyance, the economy of which arose from its burning fuel, vaporized charcoal or raw wood. The wood is piled by the driver's seat, where he feeds it into a stove, which manufactures hydrocarbon...
...Lesser U. S. coal-iron districts are in Colorado, Tennessee and Alabama. tCompared to Rhineland iron ore production, that of Great Britain is about three-tenths, of Sweden (important because smelted by low-cost electric furnaces) one-sixth, Spain one-ninth, Czechoslovakia, China, India and Algeria, each one-thirty-eighth...
Princeton, N. J., October 9--Discovering that a rope sufficiently strong to stand the strain for a tug-of war between the 1200 members of the Freshman and Sophomore classes would cost at least $1000 the Princeton Senior council decided here today to abolish the event...