Word: costs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President plans to have the Federal Trade Commission immediately investigate the rising cost of gasoline. The President has been told that the law of supply and demand is responsible for the recent rise. While in his opinion an investigation is not likely to reduce prices to any great extent, he thinks that it may have the effect of stabilizing them...
...Passed a bill, to cost $40,000,000 a year, for increasing Army Air Service personnel and building 1,800 new airplanes in five years. (Bill went to conference...
...measure had only one success. They succeeded in adding a provision for a six-foot channel in the Missouri River from Kansas City to Sioux City, 400 miles. As the bill was taken up, it carried appropriations of $36,000,000. With the added project it may cost the Government from $52,000,000 to $73,000,000. The reason they favored the Missouri project was to make the bill so cumbersome as to defeat...
...report showed that Freshmen spend the least and that succeeding classes increase their expenditures. The average freshman cost was estimated at $1,284: sophomore, $1,656: junior, $1,832, and senior...
...Haven. June 9. The results of the questionnaire recently submitted to Yale students were made known in part today. Returns indicate the amount of time spent in studies, scholarship results, the income of parents and students and expenses while in college. The total cost of an average education at Yale was shown...