Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last-minute report to the President he declared that bids submitted for a dozen new cargo vessels were, so high that acceptance was out of the question. The bids averaged about $2,700,000 per ship, three times the cost in Britain. Since private shipping lines "simply cannot afford to build at these prices even with Government assistance," Mr. Kennedy explained, the only three practical alternatives were: 1) establishment of new shipyards; 2) allow building abroad when the domestic price was more than twice the foreign price; or 3) put the Government in the shipbuilding business, the "last resort...
Pictures of the Mighty I AM Presence, showing two figures, the upper one of which emits rays of light, loom large in the cult's meditative meetings. Such pictures, garishly colored, may cost the faithful as much as $15. Originally...
...when Congress was winding up a session, spot news of the week received scant mention. Gradually TIME style developed. Gradually more and more news, with its background and significance, was put into TIME. As money was earned it was spent to improve the quality of the magazine. The editorial cost of producing an issue of TIME is today just about 50 times as great as 15 years ago. In fact the expert color photographs used nowadays on TIME'S cover often cost more than the entire editorial department in the first issue...
...Bulkley of Ohio, facing a primary fight against a hard roads ex-Governor this August, proposed a network of 100 ft. express highways which would avoid towns and cities, shoot directly across and up & down the U. S. There were to be seven North-South routes, three transcontinental. Total cost: $8,000,000,000, to be met in 16 years by tolls and leases of concession privileges along the way. Last week in the House, Alabama's Representative Henry B. Steagall, more famed for banking than transportation legislation, introduced a companion measure...
...explaining why a required course in American history was not desirable, Jones branded the suggestion as an "indocrination worthy of Hitler." In place of that, he outlined the democratic experiment of interesting as many students as possible in a program of readings to make the pupils realize the cost and hardships that went into the building of our democratic country...