Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meantime, ingenious statisticians have figured that the strike has cost the workers a loss in wages of $5,000,000 and the mill owners a loss...
...call as witnesses officials of the Wet forces, Ku Klux Klan and churches in Pennsylvania. While Senator Reed thus added to his laurels as an investigator, one of his committeemen, Senator LaFollette, drafted and proposed a resolution to bar from the Senate any man sent there at a cost of $25,000 or more. Senator Neely, also on the committee, worked over a similar resolution setting the figure...
...Lincoln C. Andrews, stern little nemesis of the bootleggers, accompanied the bill reported to the House last week by the Appropriations Committee. Mr. Andrews told what Christmas present he wanted to give the country. He proposed a triple-barrelled attack on real beer and hard liquor which would cost only three millions more than the 28 million dollar appropriation already scheduled. Three new headquarters squads would be formed: 1) 51 well-paid "undercover" agents to work under the 24 district administrators gathering evidence on lax city and state officials that will make it too expensive for them to continue their...
...Smith has administered the $50,000,000 League loan to Hungary in such a manner as to balance the Hungarian budget and stabilize the Hungarian crown. Though taxes in Hungary are still crushingly heavy, the cost of living has steadily declined during the Smith regime. It was anticipated that he would require 2½ years to balance the Hungarian budget. Six months sufficed him. He spent less than one-fifth of the stabilization loan...
...subject of college journalism. Future sessions, the prospectus explains, will be devoted to digesting, with the aid of college professors, various "green apples" lately laid before the "new" student-recent books on sociology, psychology, education, science, drama. Here, too, "good fellowship" is stressed. The scene is pastoral, the cost low, designed to suit "the overwhelming minority." Host Pratt, a recent Harvard graduate, is a subeditor and financial backer of the New Student; devotes his energies to stimulating a spirit of liberal criticism, free speech, international consciousness, among U. S. undergraduates...