Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their sting was dulled by easy money. In Depression there was little income to tax. But when the bill for Recovery was finally presented, the Tax Collector suddenly emerged as stern, ubiquitous reality. Taxes had become, and were apparently to remain, a major item in the cost of doing business, a determining factor in the cost of living...
...cost of living has been rising in Mexico so fast that recently the Department of Economy stopped publishing price indices. Mexicans with money have continued, however, to buy the U. S. razor blades, radios and motor cars...
When he dies, State Legislator Girard Muccigrosso will be well able to pay the $300 or more his own funeral will cost. But it makes him uneasy that many of his constituents in The Bronx will not be able to do so. So last week at Albany he introduced a bill which, if passed, would enable New York cities to establish municipal funeral parlors such as several big European cities maintain for their indigent citizens. Decent funerals would be provided at cost price: $60. The parlor which New York City would require to embalm & bury or cremate & pack its poorer...
...trial cost both sides a total of some $3,000,000. Maximum penalty possible is a $5,000 fine for each of the companies and $5,000 or a year in jail for each of the men. But before anyone pays a dollar in fines or serves a day in jail the Supreme Court will probably have to have...
Through a special system of selection, inexpensive and costly books were judged equally, and out of the fifty books more than half cost 42.50 or less. The books range in price from about sixty cents to about five hundred dollars...