Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Myrdal, who is a professor of Economics at the University of Stockholm, is also adviser to the Swedish government in matters of economics importance. His writing have treated of national economy, government finance, depressions and booms, the cost of living, and other economic subjects...
...intimately acquainted, I wish to call your attention to the fact that we do not always have rain for our games, that lacrosse is played, as football is played, regardless of weather conditions, and that the spring lacrosse trip more than covers its own expenses. It has not cost the H.A.A. money to send the lacrosse team on a spring trip in at least four years. Beyond that my personal knowledge does not carry...
...lacrosse squad and the coach are willing to devote their spring vacations to playing the game between automobile rides, and if this trip cost the H.A.A. nothing, I feel that your editorial was, to say the least, misleading. Bernard A. Helfat '38. Manager of Lacrosse...
...House subway dodges sewers, water pipes and roots of great elms on the Capitol grounds, it posed engineers a tortuous problem. Solution: an endless belt of aluminum plates strung together on the escalator principle, with enough play to take the curves, and powered by seven dwarf motors. Initial cost of $175,000 seemed staggering beside the $25,000 spent on the Senate trolley, but there were compensations. Annual appropriation for operating the Senate subway, which requires two motormen, is $2,000, while running cost for the moving sidewalk would be only for the flick of a switch, morning and night...
...Climaxed its drive on what President Roosevelt considers the monopolistic practices of the cement industry. The industry has long maintained that local monopolies can be avoided only by a cooperative, nationwide, delivered-price system including both production cost and delivery cost as determined from a number of basing points. This meant that when the Government asked for cement bids, the figures were almost always identical even to the fourth decimal point. Calling this practice price collusion at the expense of the consumer. Franklin Roosevelt tried to halt it with NRA, through the Attorney General's office, and finally through...