Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obtained contracts from 445 steel companies, among them U. S. Steel. Only a handful of concerns, including Tom M. Girdler's Republic Steel Corp. and other embattled members of the "Little Steel" entente, have held out against the S. W. O. C. attack, and only then at the cost of a long and hard-fought strike...
...Kansas after the War. He sketched cows and plows for farm journals, then set up for himself as a commercial artist. In 1920 he was working for a film slide company, and his ani mated cartoon career was launched with a series based on Kansas City topicalities. The film cost him 30? a foot, sold to three theatres. The average Mickey Mouse or Silly Symphony costs somewhere between $50 and $75 a foot; Snow White, over $200. Walt and a group of local cartoonists organized a $15,000 corporation in 1922, after spending six months making their first feature, Little...
...carry a payload of 25,000 Ib. in which is included full day and night accommodation for 100 passengers, crew of 16, mail, baggage and express. Six months from now if Colonel Lindbergh and P. A. A. are still interested, $35,000 will be allotted to cover the cost to the builders of further estimates. As nothing a third the size has ever been constructed in the U. S., airmen last week dazed themselves with such speculations of the completed ship as its wing spread, 200 ft.; fuselage, 200 ft. by 25 ft.; weight, 200,000 Ib. with six engines...
...date $4,300,000 has been paid for the rental of this emergency plant and in nine years it has been used twice- most recently for a few days during the 1936 floods. That time it had two weeks in which to get going, but to justify including the cost of its rental in the rate base, a company official testified a few weeks ago that in an emergency it could turn out power on an hour's notice. "We waited until they had committed themselves fully," said Mr. Beamish smugly, "then we sprang the trap...
...broke down when an oil line clogged. The fifth, Superintendent Fenstermacher was surprised to discover, turned out only 25 cycle current, which is no longer used. H. A. Gould, one of the Commission's engineers, wired Mr. Beamish: "Plant worked by an emergency crew nearly 100 men and cost terrific." Steam was leaking through dried-up gaskets. Coffee and impromptu sandwiches were served in a room once used for repairing meters but the men felt so sick from oil fumes that they did not feel like eating anything. Mr. Beamish's engineers stood around, not helping. A little...