Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colleagues exactly what the farm bill's 97 pages were all about. High point of futility in the week's debate was reached in an exchange between "Cotton Ed" Smith and Michigan's Arthur H. Vandenberg. To a Vandenberg inquiry as to how much it would cost the Government to pay farmers the benefits proposed by the bill, and where the money was to come from, Senator Smith replied that "an effort to benefit agriculture ought not to be arbitrarily limited...
...boastful William Bioff, who lives at pseudo-swank Malibu Beach, drives a sleek Fierce-Arrow, frequents hotspots on his $110 a week, $12 a day expenses, bragged that I.A.T.S.E. had cost film producers $6,000,000 a year. Said Bioff: "Communist groups . . . are responsible for charges . . . under investigation here." The audience booed. "There they are," he said, "they're all Communists...
Professor Graton, who has "been at it a lifetime," declined to give the cost of the colossal instrument other than to intimate that it was very expensive...
...grotesquely pious housemaster. The three young women start things off with a cocktail housewarming in the middle of the night, thus beginning a merry demoralization that almost results in the ruin of the worthy master, under whose nose it all takes place. When they think that they have cost him his job, they seek to make amends by trying to marry him off to their aunt, but he manages to cling gracefully to celibacy, and winds up in the place of the clergyman, as the new headmaster...
...they did come around they'd have to give an awfully good reason before I'd join up. A raise in pay wouldn't be enough. The University treats us all right on that score, and any raise in pay we'd get would be counteracted by the cost of the union...