Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Deploring the high cost of childbirth, Myrdal told his audience that, "The immediate result of childbirth is the lowering of the family standard of living, and a demoralization of the lower class. He believed that the only remedy for the declining birth rate is a government controlled birth program with a system of balancing the number of workers with the amount of work to be done...
...soul, thought of the liquor that he had proudly extracted from Halifax without paying the Canadian tax. He turned off the running lights and headed the ship slowly up into the wind. But almost immediately the green light turned into red and green and the black form of a cost guard cutter came out full against the sky. It steamed closer, and came alongside. In a queer voice the Vagabond tried to be nonchalant. "Bound for Marblehead," he called. "Leaving Bar Harbor, Maine . . . a fine night...
...yachts in the world. She is exceeded in length only by the British royal yacht Victoria and Albert and the Italian royal yacht Savoia, in tonnage by only the Victoria and Albert. Designed like a fast transatlantic passenger ship, carrying a crew of 83, she was built at a cost of $2,000,000 in the Blohm & Voss shipyards of Hamburg...
...weather, they are a big boon to the U. S. farmer. Ordinary fences are expensive, require several strands of wire, wear out quickly. If equipped with barbs, as most of them are, they occasionally injure animals severely. Electric fences can be put up at about a third the cost of the old-type fence and the operating expense is negligible-usually not more than 18? a month. The better fences give short intermittent shocks, so that animals will not "freeze" to the wire, as they might if the current were strong & steady. Once shocked, most animals will stay away from...
...President Benson's enthusiasm was still aggressive and undampened. Now he is booming a new experiment, the three-pants suit. This consists of the standard two-pants article plus an odd pair of different pattern. Benson & Rixon buys the odd pants separately, sells them at cost (a $26 two-pants suit sells for only $29.50 as a three-pants suit). By last week the chain had sold 2,900 three-pants suits in three weeks. Said beaming 55-year-old Mr. Benson: "Soon, every retailer will be selling three-pants suits, with a pair of trousers for the office...