Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...questioned him about the British Board of Film Censors of which he has been chairman for 11 years (see COMMONWEALTH) he said: "First of all we tolerate no propaganda. . . . Secondly, we recently ruled against the Edith Cavell picture Dawn because it was too warlike. I am told it cost ?35,000. It's not the war spirit that we want to foster but the spirit of peace. Thirdly, there is our attitude toward religious films. I may say that we would not have passed The King of Kings. The producer, probably surmising as much, did not submit...
...Soviet Russia has begun negotiations with Henry Ford looking towards the establishment of a Ford factory in the land of the Bolsheviks. To be sure, it is only after the Soviets had tried to produce tractors on their own account from-pirated plans, but when these were discovered to cost six times as much as American product and in addition failed to run, they capitulated to the rival system...
...undermined by loss of pay and the introduction of many new workers unsympathetic towards the I. W. W. But the largest operator, President J. F. Welborn of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., frankly admitted the injury done his own interests when he estimated that the four-month disturbance had cost Labor $3,000,000, railroads $4,000,000, affiliated industries $1,000,000 and Colorado's operators $10,000,000, not to mention markets which it would take years to recapture...
...would like to make a serious effort to cut down the cost of government...
...almost as heavy as a baseball, makes bulletlike noises as it hits the walls. Extra racquets are piled at the side of the court. Breaking one, a player grabs another, finishes the point. Sometimes in a hard game a champion breaks five or six racquets in succession. They cost fourteen dollars apiece. Court tennis players hold their racquets toward the middle, near where the rivet would be on a tennis racquet. Jay Gould was famous for his "Railroad service" which climbs along the penthouse, dropping almost dead. Etchebaster has a service like Gould...