Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...given category such as "Great Powers" would reduce their armaments by the same fraction. The strengths of the Powers relative to each other would then be exactly the same as before the scrapping took place. The advantage to the taxpayers concerned would lie in saving the operating and replacement cost of the scrapped ships...
...last week to express their ideas. Naturally they warned against too precipitate airport building. Aviation still does not know what it requires in fields. Bad example is England's Croydon field. It was remodeled and enlarged just a year ago. Now it must be altered again at great cost. Airport ideas presented at Manhattan included underground passages to holes where planes would be waiting ready to start, great landing platforms over steamship piers, and a community arrangement around a circular field, its buildings rising in height as they recede from the centre. Next month at Cleveland, engineers will meet...
...President Charles Curtis established himself, his official-hostess sister, Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, and Mr. Gann, at the fashionable Mayflower Hotel, Washington busybodies eyed the apartment (foyer, double-sized drawing room, dining room for 26 guests, smoking room, library, four bedrooms, two servants' rooms, kitchen, furnished at a cost of $75,000), ascertained its normal rental ($22,500 per year), and hastily concluded that Mr. Curtis was a free guest at the hotel for advertising purposes. A story to that effect went the rounds...
...residence is being put up at an estimated cost of $150,000 and will be ready for occupancy about the middle of June...
When Henry Ford changed from Model T to Model A, how much did the decease of the T model and the birth pangs of the A model cost him? Many a U. S. motorist has asked himself that question, has found one answer in the fact that 1928 Chevrolet production exceeded 1928 Ford production. Last week, however, a dollars-and-cents answer was provided. From figures filed last week with the Massachusetts Commissioner of Corporations in Boston, it appeared that the new model bill was something more than $72,000,000. For, according to these figures, the Ford profit...