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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Jun. 14, 1926 | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Legislative Week: Jun. 14, 1926 | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Waterways | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE QUESTIONNAIRE REVEALS STATISTICS | 6/10/1926 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE QUESTIONNAIRE REVEALS STATISTICS | 6/10/1926 | See Source »

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