Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facts are presented to substantiate the boast. The total volume of traffic during the last few months has exceeded that of Tempelhofer Field, Berlin, and Croydon, near London, long holders of first and second place. . . . The airport site is now valued at half a million dollars more than it cost. Other cities . . . may well cheer Cleveland's achievement...
...William Frederick Gericke, associate plant physiologist at the University of California, announced that he could fertilize seeds with phosphate salts making fertilization of the soil unnecessary. For three years he has worked on the problem; finally he developed a method of seed treatment on a large scale at low cost. Barley so treated yielded a 15-fold increase in phosphorus-poor ground. Untreated barley seed in the same soil yielded no crop...
...Nourmahal cost Commodore Astor $600,000 and it will cost him some $100,000 a year to keep her running. She has nine staterooms with baths, a living room with fireplace, a library, five dining rooms...
...knew I could do it. It cost me $7,000 to finance the adventure, but I hope to get it all back and more besides." These were the first words spoken by Jean A. Lussier, 36, of Springfield, Mass., after he had dropped over Niagara Falls in a rubber ball...
Died. Assan Dina, Hindu owner of Mont Blanc Observatory; suddenly at Cruseilles, Switzerland. He had begun the construction of a larger observatory on Mont Saleve, France, to cost $6,250,000, to be equipped with the world's largest telescope (diameter 105 inches...