Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blackmail. Two Bostonian District Attorneys and a Federal District Attorney's assistant put the "age-old badger game on a big business basis." It cost disporting cinema tycoons $105,000 to hush up one party; $120,000 preserved the reputation of a famed tenor; $380,000 kept a New England railroad president's name unsullied...
...nights last week a pale sliver of moon peeped down through mountainous clouds on the most frightful storm that has shaken the continent of Europe for nearly a century, a storm that uprooted trees, flooded valleys, furrowed the spume-streaked North Atlantic with giant combers, cost the lives of more than 200 persons...
...Taschereau, the crisp Premier of Quebec, had declared on his own behalf and for Premier George Howard Ferguson of Ontario:*". . . The price of $55 is not a fair return." This indication of provincial government opinion had stirred U. S. statisticians to compute that a price raise of $5 would cost U. S. publishers $19,000,000 yearly (TIME...
Including the excess of the year 1928-29 the Harvard Athletic Association has a surplus of $611,111.62. Five hundred thousand dollars of this total will be applied to the completion of the indoor athletic building now under construction. The new construction will cost $1,200,000 and the Athletic Association has gifts totalling $700,000. The balance remaining in the Athletic Association's surplus will be $111,111.62. Of the gifts made to the Harvard Athletic Association for the erection of the new gymnasium $250,000 was given with the understanding that $200,000 would be paid...
...protect U. S. lives and property; 2) to help support a stable government and suppress cannibalistic bandits; 3) to prevent, by administering the Haitian customs, European creditor nations from interfering in Haiti's affairs. In 1919 occurred an uprising against the U. S. which Haitians claimed cost 3,500 lives. In 1922 Louis Borno became President; in 1927 the Haitian Parliament dissolved...