Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later the Pepper expenditures were explored and even the seasoned members of the committee professed to be dazed. His campaign cost $1,087,000. Of this amount $390,000 had been borrowed and there is more than $100,000 to be paid. The Mellons' Pittsburgh committee had raised $306,000, and two other committees had each raised $125,000. One Pepper campaign manager testified that he had been the victim of misplaced confidence in expending money to promote additional registration of voters who later voted for Vare instead of Pepper...
...money was spent in three ways. The largest item was the total cost of the Sophomore smoker, including rental, refreshment, and entertainment, which amounted to $492.20. The Sophomore scholarship cost $250 and the annual dues to the Student Council $100, so that the balance on hand...
There are reasons for Mrs. Catt's influence. Born on a farm, she worked her way through a four-year course at Grinnell College in three years, and the entire cost to her father was only $100. At 22 she was Superintendent of schools at Mason City, Iowa. At 25 she married a struggling country editor, Leo Chapman, and worked with him until his death less than two years later. At 30 she was soliciting advertisements for a trade paper in San Francisco. At 31 she married George W. Catt (who died 15 years later), and most...
Sometimes he actually loses money in order to maintain production and employment and to keep up a sales-teasing price. Thus in twelve days, Jan. 1 to 12, 1924, he lost $232,000 on 76,295 open cars-cost $18,005,000, selling price...
...there was to know about the toothpaste market-the best distribution areas, geographic and economic. Then Lord & Thomas prepared messages to the public about Mr. Smith's toothpaste and laid before Mr. Smith a program as to where these messages should be made public, how often, at what cost. This service of Lord & Thomas differed from the service rendered Mr. Smith by his sales managers in that it kept strictly in the realm of ideas. For this ideational service Mr. Smith was glad to pay Lord & Thomas 15% more than Lord & Thomas had to pay the newspapers and magazines...