Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposed Navy program will cost $740,000,000. It is the first of four legs of the 20-year Navy program totalling $2,580,000,000, as outlined by Secretary Wilbur (TIME, Dec. 26). Last week Secretary Wilbur wrote the Naval Affairs Committee that he has made a mistake in his previous communications to that body. He had said the 20-year program would cost the U. S. $168,000,000 per annum. Then he had discovered $129,000,000 was the right figure...
Accountants of New York City pointed with pride to their balance sheet for 1927. It had cost $1,080,135,266 to run and improve the city for twelve months. This was $176,000,000 less than the total cost of running all Italy in 1927. It was almost twice the entire Belgian budget. It equaled about a fourth of the U. S. budget. . . . The second-largest U. S. city, Chicago, last week approved for 1928 the largest budget of its history...
...into which he has mustered the active heads of 159 major British corporations; 2) For Labor, Mr. Ben Turner, jovial, moderate President of the British Trades Union Congress, a body so potent that it wrought the great British General Strike (TIME, May 10 to 24, 1926), estimated to have cost the Empire not less than...
...second fact of importance carried in the Treasurer's report is the exact statement of the tuition-to-cost ratio. With the operating expenses of the University over nine million dollars, less than one fourth of the amount is paid by the students in actual tuition charges. Included in the operating expenses, however, are enrolled items amounting to approximately another fourth of the total sum which are paid indirectly or directly by the students in the form of rent, food bills, and miscellaneous charges. The blunt fact remains that about one half of the University's operating cost...
...will not abandon my resistance until the . . . pirate invaders . . . assassins of weak peoples . . " are expelled from my country. ... I will make them realize that their crimes will cost them dear. . . . There will be bloody combat...