Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glass--her first, the Vagabond could have sworn. No, decidedly, she couldn't mean the champagne. Some rejoinder was necessary. The Vagabond searched his cataloguic, almost encyclopedeaic mind for the things of the world that are free. Free speech--bad in a democratic country. Free press--even the tabloids cost, or retail at, two cents. Free lunch--scarcely to be classed among the best things of this mortal sphere. Free love--ah! was this a hint? Did the fair damsel suggest amorous dalliance. Impossible. There was no mistletoe. Besides amorous dalliance might be called "petting", a thing abhorrent to gentlemen...
...Chamber of Commerce received another Presidential frown. Rebuked for insisting on a tax cut nearly double what the Administration considers safe, Banker Lewis Eugene Pierson of Manhattan, president of the U. S. Chamber, announced last fortnight that three-fourths of all Chambermen favor the U. S. assuming the entire cost of Mississippi flood control instead of 80% of construction costs and 90% of realty costs as recommended by President Coolidge (TIME, Dec. 5, Dec. 26). Last week President Coolidge said that while some of the U. S. Chamber's activities are "helpful", others are not. He said he understood that...
...badly nicked. The most appalling item is the slice torn off for campaign expenses. Then come the tickets for balls and kindred entertainments. . . . Congressmen are considered easy marks and their names grace many a list of angels, honored by the company of America's leading philanthropists. The cost of tickets for card parties, bazaars, etc., pockmark the old stipend. A politician has to be charitable and charity tugs not at the heart, but the purse. ". . . Our extravagances are expressed before the galleries. No sightseers observe the Cabinet in argument, excitement or perplexity. You cannot tune in on the White...
When recompleted, Sculptor Baker's enormous woman will be stationed on top of an elevation in the Cherokee Strip, once the last public land in the U. S. Around her will lie a park whose total cost, including the woman herself, will...
...England where the government operates the transatlantic radio telephone service a plaint arose last week-that during the eleven months of radio telephone service between England and the U. S. only 834 calls originated in England, less than three a day. Fees paid totaled $250,000, but cost of operating the sending station at Rugby was $600,000. This must be investigated, cried T. D. Fenby, Liberal member of Parliament, and the service perhaps discontinued. In Manhattan the American Telephone &Telegraph Co. (Bell System), which makes the transatlantic connections from the American side, immediately counterblasted the British plaint. Its operators...