Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: . . . You say "the million-dollar state capitol at Frankfort [Kentucky]." This capitol, completed in 1909, cost...
Florida businessmen privately estimated that the Presidential passage through their realty would nearly equal, in publicity, the cost of the 1926 hurricane. A sumptuous motorcade stood ready to show the President the boulevards, beaches and buildings of Miami and Coral Gables when his train stops there for an hour Saturday. But the President's attention is likely to be occupied not by realty but by the Flagler genius when, reaching Everglade station south of Miami, the train starts out on a long point to a station called Jewfish. There the railway crosses an inlet to Key Largo and begins...
...society. Not only will the window be closed at once, but the unfortunate person who opened it will have incurred the lasting enmity of his fellows. We cannot hope to open a window in Widener. What we can do is to see that the ventilating system, installed at great cost when the building was erected, but never used for lack of funds, is put into operation at once. Connections can easily be made with the Reading Room, if indeed they do not already, exist. Thus we can be assured of a regular supply of fresh air without draught, and consequently...
...whole problem of college tuition and whether or not the student should pay the full cost of education, recalls the prophecy made last spring by John D. Rockefeller Jr., that the day of the large donor was coming to a close, and that universities must eventually become self-supporting. At Yale, even with the forthcoming increase, students will still pay less than half the cost of education. At Harvard the percentage paid by the individual must be even smaller. Though the total endowment is much larger than at Yale, the drain of graduate schools and work is greater here...
Asked about the cost of his various productions, Ziegfeld said that his five shows, "The Follies," "Rosalie," "Show Boat," "Rio Rita," and "The Three Musketeers" cost over $2,200,000 to put on, and that the weekly expense is over...