Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been a member of the much abused Klan for years, and I expect to be a member as long as I live and the need for such an organization in these United States exists. I have never received any financial benefit from my membership; on the contrary it has cost me a considerable sum to attend the various meetings, etc. The only benefit received by myself has been the strengthening of my patriotism, my love of Country...
...Navy. Sparing on other outlays, the Administration advocated at Christmas time a bill to authorize 74 new ships for the Navy, to cost some $1,500,000,000 including men and maintenance, over the next nine years. This program was chiefly one of replacement but pacific citizens objected so strenuously that the bill was scrapped last month by the House Naval Affairs Committee and replaced by a 16-ship program to cost only some $264,000,000, reserving to the President the power to suspend construction in case of another international disarmament conference. The House received this bill last fortnight...
...Muscle, Shoals problem gas once more come before the Senate. The bill which presents it proposes that the government market the power which can be easily developed and devote the proceeds to the development of farm fertilizers. Considering that the plant cost the United States $160,000,000 and that it cannot be sold at a profit this seems a sensible project...
...Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard University, who roundly flayed U. S. public schools for their excessive cost, their waste of youth's time, their superficial courses, their poor preparation for college. Said President Lowell: "The saying that there are many ways of killing a cat besides choking it with butter can be applied to American schools in more than one sense. . . . What we need is a good mental training, an accurate and thorough habit of mind, not a frittering away of the attention by a multitude of small matters of which the pupil does not get enough to develop...
...perhaps a few trees will grow. Under the plaza and one corner of the building will run the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. But railroad service will not be interrupted during construction of the News' house. Holabird & Roche are the architects. Cost is estimated at $8,000,000. Upper stories will be rented as offices...