Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...owner, breeder and driver of the fastest trotting horses than have the power and riches of a Croesus. As a sportsman, he is strictly an amateur. None of his horses have ever raced for money; in fact, at his own racetrack in Memphis he prohibits all betting. It cost him a million dollars to produce Lou Dillon and her record, but he was glad...
...this prosperity been attained? By- 1) The limitation of arms in the Washington Conference so that tax payers are saved five billion dollars which would otherwise have been spent on the country's naval building program. 2) "A protective tariff sufficiently high to cover the difference between the cost of living here and abroad, 12 per cent lower than the Payne-Aldrich rates, 20 per cent below the Dingley rates and with 60 per cent of all importations on the free list." Due to this tariff protection, the value of the farm crop is 30% higher than...
...Edsel Ford reported to the President concerning the progress of the Ford industries in commercial aviation, told him of a program to build 100 all-metal, three-motored planes which can carry a ton of freight efficiently and at comparatively low cost (TIME...
...debt of France be irrevocably guaranteed by making constitutional the recently passed legislation (TIME, Aug. 9 et seq.) creating an autonomous sinking fund outside Parliamentary control from which the internal debt will be repaid under the supervision of non-partisan experts. Beside the accomplishment of this great purpose the cost of a few beds, of a little beer and wine, was not consequential...
...Field's medical confreres were vexed at his publicity. The explanation: radium activates chemical processes that would otherwise occur very slowly if at all. Chemicals coloring the hard carbon-crystals of diamond are oxidized by radium in salts or even weak solutions. Cost ratio: a $100 yellow stone (½ karat) was changed to a $700 blue-white stone in four days, using $8,000 worth (100 milligrams) of radium. The less radium, the longer the time necessary. A difficulty: for speediest effects, the gems, and hands of the experimenters, must be directly exposed to the radium, risking burns...