Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...icons within. Prelates of the Cathedral had launched a campaign for $25,000 to refurbish it, but little money was forthcoming from the poor Russians of the congregation. So Dean Maslov scrambled to the roof, spread seven rolls of paper and three buckets of tar upon it. Total cost...
...scholarship, innumerable quotations, occasional flashes of bitter humor, Dr. Vagts includes two brilliant sections that might well be reprinted as separate volumes. One is a provocative analysis of the pre-War German army, its officers split into snobbish cliques, undermining the plans of their rivals without regard for the cost of human life. The other is a soberly inspiring appraisal of Washington as a military genius who is almost unique in history in that he had no militaristic ambitions. Net conclusion of all Dr. Vagts's scholarship: there is little military science, much militaristic posturing, in modern wars...
...short wool fibres are made into certain types of coating, cheviots, shetlands. cashmeres. Long fibres, or wool tops, go into making worsteds, which comprise about half of wool production.* Since wool tops are wool that has been considerably processed, it seems logical to the uninitiated that wool tops should cost more than raw wool. Yet wool tops for future delivery are now selling for from 5? to 10? a lb. less than raw wool for cash...
...increase in values which cannot be accounted for by the statistics of the Finance Ministry"-i. e., national prestige and local business promotion. This year's Paris International Exposition, which closed last week for the winter, will presumably also be subject to such budgetary juggling. For it cost $64,600,000, of which an estimated $49,000,000 came as a direct Government subsidy. By last week 33,724,295 patrons had paid some $4,746,000 to see the Fair's gaudy structures clustered along the Seine. To reopen them next year is expected to cost another...
...part financed by Fair revenues, the rest by a $27,800,000 issue of 4% debentures which has been completely taken by the public. Domestic and foreign participants will ante enough more money to make the Fair fund total $125,000,000, twice the Paris Exposition's cost and by all odds the biggest sum ever spent on a Fair in history...