Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first experiment with "P. R." seemed last week a little puzzling. In the first dragging days of the count, official action had to be taken against soldiering on the part of the 1,778 counters and officials whose salaries, ranging from $10 to $30 a day, finally ran the cost of the count to a staggering $850,000. And although P. R. was adopted last year as a reform measure to enfranchise minorities and protect them against Tammany domination, it had not only disfranchised that 16% of the voters who could not understand the ballots but had given the Democrats...
...courts confirm a Parliamentary vote which recently cleared him of charges in connection with a scandal at the National Bank of Belgium (TiME, Sept. 20 et ante). In his program speech last week, Premier Janson promised to continue the van Zeeland policy of keeping down prices and therefore the cost of living. He promised to carry forward van Zeeland's extension of unemployment insurance, health insurance and old age pensions...
...anatomist, Edmond J. Farris, has developed such a remarkable chemical technique for preserving specimens that he is confident he could preserve indefinitely the body of any notable human being, at a cost of $20,000. (He deprecates the preservation of Enrico Caruso and Nikolai Lenin as "mere embalmings," suspects that the body of Caruso is secretly re-embalmed every year, says "Lenin is turning dark. He won't last...
...cities, from Albuquerque, N. Mex. to Boston, Mass., its producers have had to pay lawyers to fight local censorship. In Chicago, where a brief filed in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals called the play "a garbage pail of indecent dialogue and degenerate exhibitionism," legal defense cost nearly $75,000. As advertising it was cheap...
Effective beginning with the current payroll periods, the salary rise which has been estimated to cost $30,000 a year affects dormitory maids, messenger boys, and library pages. Increases of from five to ten dollars a month are represented in the new rates...