Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Major General Jadwin, Chief of Engineers; for Representative William E. Hull of Illinois, outspoken advocate of a 100% Federal program. After much conferring, the President let it be known that he might let up a bit on his insistence that the flood-region States pay 20% of the cost of their protection...
...Robert W. Stewart, brisk, bulky board chairman of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, know where Continental was buying $1.50 oil? He did. He also knew that the oil would cost him $1.75 from the same source, for reasons beyond his control. Since oil was commanding $2 per barrel elsewhere at the moment, he felt he was serving his Indiana Standard stockholders well in helping to guarantee to Sinclair, as cunningly inevitable middleman, a profit which Indiana Standard could equal in turn. "It was a good buy," he said...
Liniment, railroad fare, telegrams, spiked shoes, coaches' salaries were so costly that every other sport showed a deficit. Crew cost Yale the most, $65,618; the Gun Club, least expensive, was a $651 luxury. Visiting teams pocketed a third of the huge football monies. The rest went toward promoting adequate padding and feed for Yale athletes, toward athletic education, toward that potent plank in every college sales talk, "Athletics...
...there had been an orchestral slump, in part produced by the new sunken pit. In the business offices, there was no waiting for esthetic failures. President Samuel Insull shook the box-office records together and discovered that the 107 performances on the home stage would cost the guarantors some $450,000. This would not deprive the Chicago Com-pany of its new twenty-million, forty-two-story opera house, to be ready season after next...
...dinner in honor of the University crew which won over the Yale crew last June at New London will be given tonight at 7 o'clock at the Harvard Club of Boston. All members of the University are invited to attend the dinner, which will cost $2 per plate. Tickets may be obtained from R. F. Herrick '90, 1 Federal Street, Boston, or they may be had at the Harvard Club at the time of the dinner...