Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, which is now worth roughly $8,000,000,000 in real estate, was purchased from the Indians for $24 worth of beads and trinkets. In 1803, France's Louisiana Territory (827,987 sq. mi.) cost a monstrous $15,000,000. Last week the U. S. Supreme Court awarded Oregon's Klamath and Modoc Indians and the Yahooshin band of Snakes $5,313,347 for an area one six-thousandth the size of the Louisiana Territory, inhabited by one one-thousandth as many people as Manhattan now holds. Reason...
...principal object of the raid was not China's provisional capital, but the arsenal across the river at Hanyang. Although the arsenal was undamaged, a crowded circular area facing the Yangtze was destroyed at the cost of hundreds of lives. To Japan's aerial warriors the raid was in celebration of sacred Emperor Hirohito's 37th birthday...
John Revellion, a printer, said fr London: "The increase will cost me about ten pounds ($50) a year more. If that's the price of peace I think it is a good investment for me and perhaps for the world...
...advance sale of $8,000 finally saw the Mercury through the opening night of Caesar, which all told cost $16,000 to get under way. After that, finances were a pleasure. Today Welles & Houseman own 70% of the Mercury which, sticking to a $2.20 top, has had an average gross of $6,000 a week, an average...
...years, metropolitan readers of New York's Times and Herald Tribune have paid 2? for these big budgets of morning news. Those 2? barely paid the cost of the blank newsprint for each paper. Beginning this week, half a million New Yorkers had to change their habits, fork out 3? for the Times or the Tribune...