Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...government is based primarily on business economics, answered: "The development of water resources to relieve railway congestion. . . . Our engineers assure me that a consolidated Mississippi Valley system of water trunk lines and tributaries can be finished in five years if we go at it vigorously, and that the cost will not be much above a hundred million dollars. This is negligible expense for facilities that will move-economically speaking-our Middle Western wheat growers and cattle raisers hundreds of miles nearer to shipside and place them on a par with their competitors in the Argentine, India and Australia...
...House the Norris resolution ordering the War Department to complete and operate the Government's $140,000,000 wartime power plants at Muscle Shoals, Ala., on the Tennessee River, and ordering the Department of Agriculture to experiment with making cheap nitrate fertilizers there, for sale at cost to farmers. ¶ Rejected by 39 votes to 29 the renomination of John Jacob Esch of Wisconsin to the Interstate Commerce Commission, after hot intersectional debate on his voting in coal-rate cases...
...band and goes to pay the professor a call. Half an hour later he comes out with his mark raised to a substantial B. The one objection would be that the band would probably charge more than the Widow's though to be sure the effort would not cost the student such mental agony...
...Patten explained that Mr. Upham had a "taking" way with him. Mr. Upham used to say to Mr. Patten: "I am the dearest friend you've got. I cost you the most money." Mr. Patten, realizing that the deficit had to be met, handed over a check for $25,000. Mr. Upham said he would soon deliver the bonds...
...contract between the American Railway Express and the railroads for hauling express expires in February 1929. At that time, according to the contract imposed by the Government, the railroads may exercise a legal option to purchase the American Railway Express at cost less depreciation. Suppose, ruminated Wall Street, the new "invisible" owners of the American Railway Express decline to sell and invent ingenious legal delays. Then the eight railroad masters, aided by legal masters, would reply by simply purchasing express wagons, express trucks, renting express offices for the railroads of the U. S., leaving the American Railway Express with great...