Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed (292-to-100) the Navy Expansion Bill, authorizing a 20% increase in the U. S. Navy at a cost of $1,121,546,000, sent it to the Senate...
...code (which practically doubled the eight foot-candle minimum recommended by the same groups in 1932) produced more heat than light. For to pour 15 foot-candles on every pupil's desk would cost U. S. schools untold millions ($1,000,000 a year in New York City alone). Even before the code was issued, the National Council on Schoolhouse Construction, which was represented on a committee of 15 groups collaborating in the study, had adopted a resolution in convention withholding approval of the 15 foot-candle minimum until "scientific" tests had been made. A member of the committee...
...Land, buildings, equipment and mineral properties, at cost (except for the inclusion of net revaluation increases by subsidiaries or their predecessors, prior to the organization of the present parent company, of $4,316,994.85 in mineral properties and $241,764.73 in other fixed assets) less reserves for depreciation, depletion and obsolescence...
...contains two brilliant essays, one on the ambiguity of Henry James which is the most searching study of James that has appeared; one on the critic and reformer, John Jay Chapman, which powerfully evokes the confusion of pre-War U. S. intellectual life, reveals what it has cost its men of genius...
Under the registered trademark name Stratoliner, Boeing last week announced it was ready for additional orders from all comers, and among the first to be interested was American Airlines. The new ship will cost $340,500, have four 900 h.p. Wright Cyclone engines, wing span of 107 ft., length of 74 ft. The fuselage, 11 ft. wide, seats 33 daytime passengers, has berths for 16, reclining chairs for nine night travelers, accommodation for three flying officers, hostess and Filipino house boy. Its normal speed is around 200 m.p.h., range, with full 9,750-lb. load, about 1,000 miles...