Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lose a stray arm or leg under that inhuman pressure. Somehow it doesn't seem worth the trouble to him. Maybe it will stop. Maybe it will go away or melt like a fog. Anyhow, why die by inches? Why this flurry of self-preservation at such a cost? No, 'tis better to die there calmly--to be run over in one quick piece--with quiet dignity to undergo the roller and come out on the other side a mere blob of jelly but retaining still a spark of self respect...
Just as significant to C. I. 0. as its financial support has been the Garment Workers contribution in manpower. In 1926 when a disastrous strike cost the union some $3,500,000, the only solvent local was David Dubinsky's. He was made president of the international union in 1932, after the death of famed Ben Schlesinger. Under the New Deal membership has jumped from...
...every effort had been made by Trautmann to keep them secret, was broken by dispatches from Hankow routed to the outside world via Moscow. What were said to be the "mild peace terms" being offered by Dr. Trautmann were then released at Tokyo. Japan asks China to pay the cost of the war; she asks the Chinese Government to repudiate Communism and accept Japanese advisers; China is then to recognize Manchukuo and collaborate economically with Japan in joint air and rail services and other projects. Latest reports were that Chiang had twice refused the Japanese proposals, but that Trautmann...
During the summer study of these revealed that in sectors of the Plan in which there had been costly breakdowns the greater-than-expected total cost was cited by the Gosplan as evidence of "over-fulfillment." Copies of the official statistics issued by the state in languages other than Russian were again found to omit qualifying footnotes and other matter the absence of which made the second Five-Year Plan results read more optimistically in English, French or German than in the Russian text...
...price of newsprint for one dizzy moment in 1921 was $130 a ton. About a third of the cost of publishing a newspaper is the cost of newsprint and publishers were pleased when it dwindled...