Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adrift on life's mighty ocean, where each mistake has its cost...
Gimbel Bros. Inc.: Lee Adam Gimbel, 32, as Vice President; to become a trader on the New York Stock Exchange; at a cost, for his seat...
...scratch, about three quarters of an inch in length, on the third finger of the left hand . . . and three buttons torn from my vest, which any tailor will reinstate for a sixpence. His loss is a rent from top to bottom of a very beautiful black coat, which cost the ruffian $40, and a blow in the face, which may have knocked down his throat some of his infernal teeth for anything I know. Balance in my favour $39.94. ... I never will abandon the cause of truth, morals and virtue...
Capt. Bartlett deprecated airplanes and dirigibles: "They can't dredge, can't take samples of water." He estimated that his freeze-and-drift project would cost $300,000. Purposes: study of magnetic & meteorological conditions, currents, water temperatures; mapmaking; procuring weather data...
From 178th Street in New York City the mightiest of suspension bridges is being built, across the Hudson River. Its span will be 3,500 feet, its weight 90,000 tons, its cost $60,000,000. Like mechanistic titans, its two towers will stand 635 feet above the river.* Last week they had risen more than 450 feet, were visible for miles around. They shone with the preliminary coat of bright red paint which is applied to most steel structures.† An artist named McClelland Barclay saw the glowing towers of the Hudson bridge. He was inspired. "The new bridge...