Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stressing the fact that his is only a temporary solution Pennsylvania's chief executive specifically urged a three part spending program which would provide low cost housing, an extensive system of safe highways, and rural electrification. The masses must be made into customers, he said...
...message the President set forth both specific recommendations and a broad Big Navy Policy for future construction. He urged that two more battleships be laid down this year-in addition to the two now abuilding at a cost of $70,000,000 each. He also recommended that work be started immediately on two more light cruisers. And to keep abreast of the mile-a-minute torpedo motor boats developed abroad, notably in Italy, he asked for a special $15,000,000 appropriation for experimental construction of "small vessels...
...years old to day I think you might send me Money so I could go the Fair at Chicago in about two weeks befor the fall rush comes. It would only cost about 200.00/100 dollars. I can get Passes to Chicago and return let me Know as soon as you can so I can get redy I want to seee the Fair so bad, please let me go. Your affectson...
...believers, from which they split in 1890, maintains a congregational form of government. Most notable of the schismatics is Raymond Pitcairn, who has made their fane the closest thing to a family cathedral in the world today. He donated much of the $14,000,000 it has cost; he dismissed its architects some years ago, has since supervised the unhurried firing of its glass, forging of its metals, hewing of its timbers. Currently a load of teak logs for the cathedral are aging at the bottom of the Pitcairn swimming pool...
National has cost the U. S. $20,000,000. When it was organized in 1929 by a bald Kansas farmer named Clarence Huff its capital-about $1,000,000-was entirely private. But various Government farm agencies immediately began to lend it money. When it was reorganized in 1936 there were $14,000.000 worth of Government loans to be canceled. It was then lent $7,500,000 more by the Farm Credit Administration. It was supposed to repay this sum by an assessment on every bushel of grain it sold for its members. The members objected...