Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Borah and others have proposed that the U. S. determine the cost of U. S. crops, buy surpluses and market them abroad. This is subsidy...
William Randolph Hearst has built another house. It is a squarish house, stolid, concrete, spotted with wide windows, utilitarian. It cost $3,000,000. The money was mostly spent for speed...
Gifts of the largest ten subscribers totaled $6,450,000. Chief among them was Edward Stephen Harkness (1897), who supplemented his fat subscription with a special gift of cover charges for the whole campaign cost. But for him, said President Angell, the drive would have failed its schedule dates...
...indoor athletic plant about which there has been so much discussion recently provides a classic example of the unwise use of the conditional gift. A donor, as yet anonymous, has offered to present the Harvard Athletic Association with one third the estimated cost of erecting such a building, estimated at present at about one million dollars. The site that this building is to occupy has already been chosen and plans have tentatively been drawn, while Mr. Bingham and his aides are attempting to raise the some $600,000 that are still necessary for the structure's erection...
...view of Harvard's present athletic equipment the most important part of this building is the swimming pool, and this, alone, it has been estimated, will cost some $250,000. There seems to be no adequate reason, according to the architects, why this part of the building should not be erected first. The plans now in existence show that the swimming pool forms a sort of wing to the main athletic building, almost a separate building," though harmonizing in every way with the complete indoor plant...