Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...history of the state. *This county in the Finger Lakes district is the stamping ground of the famed progeny of two sisters (Jukes) and two Dutch backwoodsmen. Sixty percent of this hereditary strain are idiots, imbeciles, harlots, murderers, thieves, perverts, felons, loons, sots, paupers, maniacs, etc. The Jukes have cost the government $1,308,000 in 75 years. "Boss" Brennan is no Juke...
...Commons- ¶ I Upheld the Baldwin Conservative Government 338 to 152 in its watchful waiting policy of dealing with the coal strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.) which has reputedly cost the Empire to date a sum equivalent to $1,000,000,000. ¶ Heard Liberal leader Lloyd George flay Premier Baldwin for not yielding to the proposal of a group of Church of England dignitaries (TIME, July 26) that the Government subsidize the coal industry for four months, during which time work would be resumed and peace negotiations continued. ¶ Dozed as Premier Baldwin, seemingly fatigued, "run down," replied...
...cost of kings? The announcement last week that the civil list- of King Alexander I of Jugoslovia has just been raised to the equivalent of $1,000,000 per annum prompted intensive scanning of the civil lists of Europe's principal sovereigns...
President Calles reputedly ordered from the Pullman Co. last week a new Presidential Train. Cost, $500,000. Color, yellow...
...delayed in its terrible function of correcting the nervously scribbled "books" of 22,000 would-be matriculants to Vassar, Smith, Princeton, Yale, Wellesley, Harvard, etc., owing to the facts: that the scribbling was not finished until June 21; that the 700 teachers, who correct the papers at a cost of about $100,000, had had to be sent to Manhattan hotels this year instead of to Columbia University dormitories; that the Fourth of July had interrupted the graders with its parades, swimming, firecrackers. However, half the 22,000 candidates had been notified, announced Secretary Thomas Scott Fiske...