Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cost of living has now risen and is still rising in France at such a rate that wages must obviously be further raised- members of the Chamber took time out recently to raise their own pay-and the new charter adopts a variant of the system existing in Belgium, where most labor contracts provide for automatic revision of wages up or down in step with the price index...
...annual which sold for $5 cost only $1.90 to produce. The Law School officially cooperated with the venture by ordering pictures taken of the students through the Secretary's office and by donating free space for photo-snapping in Austin Hall...
Herter is a member of the Legislative Special Committee to Investigate Taxation which has just finished its report on the tax situation. The report advocates a 2 percent sales tax on all transactions to relieve taxation of real estate and to provide more revenue for the increased cost of Massachusetts government. Herter will support the findings of the Committee...
...flagship is scheduled to arrive in the U. S. next May. Almost exactly the size and speed of Britain's new Mauretania (see below), The Netherlands' vessel differs from the British ship in that it is streamlined, has egg-shaped, sootless funnels, and its $12,000,000 cost was met entirely without Government subsidy or mail contracts. First ship to explore New York's Hudson River 329 years ago was also Dutch-Henry Hudson's Halve Maen, which would fit neatly into the Nieuw Amsterdam's great delft-tiled swimming pools...
...comparison with his former wife's volume, 50-year-old Baron von Blixen-Finecke's African Hunter is little more than a handbook for big-game hunters. A professional guide to millionaire sportsmen, he enumerates his choice kills, gives bag limits, cost ($2,000 per month per person), devotes his longest section to a hunting trip with the Prince of Wales-"perhaps the toughest sportsman of them all." Except for an occasional game beater. Baron Blixen-Finecke does not care much for natives. Now married to an adventurous, pretty, 29-year-old Englishwoman, he remembers his first wife...