Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...audible. He clenched his teeth and, turning to them, raised his hand to silence them so he could be heard and said: ' 'We must not weep. Though I too have lost a dear one, I think only of victory. We must carry on, no matter what the cost.'" The Colonel would "carry on," as he had done all his life, yet "on the day when the whole of America was in a frenzy...
Blue and then white-lipped they sought to keep each other from falling into the terrible sleep of exhaustion which promised relief at the cost, perhaps, of life...
...proposes the payment of German reparations in "producers goods," such as mining machinery, which it is proposed to install, for example, in French Morocco, thereby giving employment to French workers. Should Germany pay in "consumers goods", shoes for example, numerous French shoemakers would be thrown out of work. The cost of financing concerns to operate the "producers goods" and return a profit is expected to be borne by loans from the U. S. and allied nations. Sir Frederick Whyte: "It is very doubtful whether the united armies of Asia could ever be set in motion. Such an enterprise implies...
...Ford explained the ship† that is to be standardized and produced, en masse, at Detroit. No air "jitney," it is a large ship, designed for commercial uses. It is an all-metal monoplane with three Wright-Whirlwind motors. It can carry a ton of freight, operating at a cost of 13.8 cents a mile. Its cruising radius is 2,500 miles. New, it costs the purchaser $37,000. It is planned to build 100 of these planes forthwith. After these are sold the price may drop to $28,000. Eventually, "we hope to put a machine...
...ranking subordinate, Inspector Harry E. Laukhart, was bound over to the Trumbull County grand jury last week, accused of accepting a $40 bribe to ignore town speakeasies. †The cost of U. S. government, federal, state and local, was $10,975,000,000 last year (N. Y. Trust Co.'s The Index, July, 1926). In 1924 it was $10,252,000,000, which meant 16% of the income of all the people, or $91.47 for each one, or $400 for each family [American Exchange-Pacific National Bank (Manhattan) August monthly letter...