Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...railroad plight (see p. 64), the roads had their first good news in many a day. The House Interstate Commerce Committee killed a Senate bill to limit the length of freight trains to 70 cars-a law for which railroad labor lobbied long and earnestly but which would have cost the roads an estimated $125,000,000 to put into effect...
Commissioner Walker's major premise is that, because of A. T. & T.'s system of cost accounting and its relations with its manufacturing subsidiary, Western Electric Co., its costs are far too high and could be reduced enough to bring telephone rates down 25% "without interrupting existing net earnings." Other Walker assertions and proposals...
...Cost of institutional advertising should be borne by the stockholders, who benefit by it, instead of by the telephone subscribers, who pay for it now through their bills...
...authority: 1) to "review, approve or disapprove all Bell System policies and practices promulgated by the central management group"; 2) to "permit regulation of the Western Electric Co. by the FCC as a public utility"; 3) to "fix temporary rates whenever it appears that the return on net book cost is excessive"; 4) "to regulate Bell System financing"; 5) "to limit the scope of Bell System activities to the communications field" (Bell System at various times has been involved in radio, cinema, artificial larynges, photoelectric eyes...
Thirty years ago only the rich could afford the strange meaty taste of avocado pears. Now avocados cost around a dime apiece instead of $5. West Indian avocados are grown in Florida, and some 13,000,000 pounds were imported last season from Cuba (certain spectacular avocados weigh two pounds apiece). But most avocados eaten in the U. S. come from California. Californians look down their noses at the West Indian article; California avocados are Guatemalan or Mexican or a cross beween the two. The Fuerte, a hybrid, called "the sturdy" because it shivered through the Big Freeze...