Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Costs. What the administration of the Act would cost, neither Chairman Smith, nor Chairman Jones, nor any of its sponsors ventured to say. While the House and Senate bills were being drawn up, President Roosevelt asked that the appropriations be kept within the $500,000,000 appropriated to administer the Soil Conservation Act. Some Congressional estimates ran as high as $1,500,000,000. Assumption was, however, that Secretary Wallace could use his discretionary power over crop loans to keep the cost near the President's figure. Like the Soil Conservation Act, the Act provided for no compensating revenues...
...Last month a U. S. team won the Gordon Medal (since 1884 the
symbol of Canadian-U. S. superiority) for the 13th time. *Early stones
were natural waterworn boulders. Modern stones are quarried tinder
water in Scotland, have
Resentful of the New York Fair, which will be twice as big, San Franciscans point out that their fair buildings are costing slightly more to the acre than the eye-fillers on Flushing Meadows. One item in this cost is presumably the quantity of sculpture with which San Francisco's non-modernist but imposing buildings will be adorned. No less than 20 local sculptors had been working undisturbed with the exposition architects, until meaty Irishman Connick, who was chief engineer for the 1915 San Francisco fair and later finance chairman of Famous Players Lasky Corp., became executive director fortnight...
...method is called parthenocarpy (Greek parthenos, virgin; carpos, fruit). The chemical is indoleacetic acid, or heteroauxin, a famed plant hormone which has been used to stimulate root-sprouting and growth (TIME, Oct.11). Heteroauxin can be made synthetically at a cost of about $3 per ounce. One ounce in very dilute solution is enough to treat hundreds of plants. At the Department of Agriculture's experiment station in Beltsville, Md., Frank Easter Gardner and Ezra Jacob Kraus of the University of Chicago sprayed holly blooms with heteroauxin, obtained berries. These parthenocarpic fruits contained no trace of embryo, but the plant...
...cost would make construction of such highways impractical, and regular surface roads would be more convenient for short distances. The proposed highways would not "generate a sufficient volume of passenger traffic" to make the scheme pay interest by means of tolls...