Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department last year spent $124,500-$96,000 over its appropriation for this purpose-on gunpowder used in salutes to the President and other dignitaries. Paring expenses, the Department last week announced that official salutes henceforth would be fired by inferior powder, thus cutting the cost of a 21-gun salute from $62.37 to $28.35. With cheap powder, according to War Department officials, noise made by salutes will be not "Boom" but "Swoosh...
...Gasque Bills which the Administration is determined not to swallow* are two. The first would liberalize the interpretation of disability to include every soldier "unable to do manual labor," would up non-service-connected pensions from $30 to the $40 they were before the Economy Act of 1933. Cost estimate: $5,000,000 the first year. The "big" Gasque Bill carries out the announced aims of American Legion Commander Daniel J. Doherty: pensions for all veterans' widows, regardless of whether their husbands ever fought anything but mosquitoes. Estimated annual cost...
...announced that this month it would begin operating 50 completely air-conditioned busses between Chicago and points west to Los Angeles. The new busses, square-fronted and streamlined, have separate four-cylinder engines to operate the cooling and air conditioning mechanisms, maintain a constant temperature of 65°. Cost: $17,200 each...
Jezebel. Last week the U. S. cinemaudience saw a crinolined & frock-coated production that cost $1,250,000, an intensely-played, adroitly-directed story, as like to Gone With the Wind as chicory is to coffee. After some badly-drawled atmosphere-setting about the propriety of mentioning a lady's name in a barroom, audiences knew that the girl to be reckoned with would be high-stepping Julie Marsden (Bette Davis), who had turned down a horse-&-hounds aristocrat named Buck Cantrell (George Brent) for one Preston Dillard (Henry Fonda...
...These Diseases, it is estimated, cause a yearly loss of 7,500,000 weeks of work in this country at a total annual cost of $200,000,000," the doctor said...