Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reasonably adequate. For example, the Board's books carried the Leviathan at a value of $6,050,600 (though the U. S. spent more than $10,000,000 to recondition her). Mr. Chapman's offer itemized $6,782,000 for the Leviathan. The "American" vessels, all alike, cost the U. S. between $3,500,000 and $4,000,000 each to build. The Board valued them at $340,800 each. Mr. Chapman bid $460,000 apiece for them...
...terms of the Chapman bid were specified $4,000,000 in cash, a note for the balance, operation of 11 ships for five years, and construction of two new ships by borrowing 75% of their cost from...
...order of President Chiang Kaishek, approved by the "Disbandment Conference" (see above), the great Chinese arsenal at Mukden, Manchuria, said to have cost $50,000,000, will be dismantled, and its machinery and equipment carried 1,100 miles southward to the new Chinese capital of Nanking, and there reassembled...
...began to attach themselves to his labors in great quantity. Two state investigations, following each other in quick succession, provided the springboard for his leap into general esteem. To State Senator Frederick C. Stevens of New York he owed his appointment as counsel to the legislative committee investigating the cost of gas. The gas companies had fixed it at $1 per null cubic feet, declared the figure could not be slashed. Counsel Hughes proved that 80¢ was ample. The reports and bills he drafted were upheld by the courts and led to the naming of a commission to control...
...Architecture is a collaborative profession; a coordination of efforts to create a work of art to fulfill a definite need within a definite cost. The mind of the architect must interpret the need from another mind, apply it to his imagination, translate the concept to other minds and direct still other hands to give it form and substance and make it fulfill the need for which, and satisfy him for whom, it was created...