Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the boring competition ended, Betty Wilson, a swimmer, and Howard Williams, a steeplejack and flagpole sitter, were tied for first prize. Promoter Crandall suggested that they talk off the tie. The gab fest cost Promoter Crandall $12,000 and he derived no financial profit from his game...
...tank is the gift of J. H. Rand Jr. 'OS, of the Remington-Rand Corporation and was built at a cost of $135,000. It is the first in the country which will be able to give both high and low pressures, for which purpose each compartment is equipped with two doors. The apparatus was constipueted at Akron Ohio, according to plans drawn up by A. J. Van Woert of the Harvard Engineering School...
...bill calls for 15 cruisers and an air-craft-carrier, to cost...
...staggering cost of cablegrams sent by the League of Nations in an effort to persuade Bolivia and Paraguay to stop fighting (TIME, Dec. 17 & 24) was found last week to total 130,000 Swiss gold francs...
Subscriptions cost 1,900 francs a year ($75). Electricians who come clumping in to install the device bring a loud speaker and two pairs of headphones. Thereafter the subscriber may listen, every night and two afternoons a week, to whatever may be sung at the Opera, or played in such famed theatres as the Odeon or Comedie Française. Already half a dozen hit-show theatres supplement this list; and Le Théatrophone seems to have definitely caught on. One typically French restriction is imposed. The subscriber may not switch from one performance to another while the first...