Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the P. I. D. covered 326. When reports of its maneuvers have been studied at Washington, the War Department may abolish the old style division entirely, streamline the whole army in similar units if and when it can get the money to cover the prodigious cost...
...would give private capital every opportunity. Indeed, most of the changes recommended in the present law were designed to encourage the private operation -protection against unjust cancellation of subsidies, reduction of down payment on ships from 25% of domestic cost to 25% equivalent foreign cost, permission to build abroad when the cost is more than 50% cheaper than at home, easing provisions for recapture of profits, easing restrictions on foreign registry and allowing the Commission to waive at its discretion the present $25,000 salary limit for officers of subsidized lines...
What will it cost? In the past 20 years the U. S. Government spent $3,800,000,000 on the merchant marine. "We have come today to the end of our once-magnificent armada. Of the 2,500 vessels launched in the mightiest shipbuilding program in history but a few hundred aging specimens remain." Operating subsidies alone may mount under the present law to $15,000,000 or $20,000,000 per year. With luck and $50,000,000 of taxpayers' money solvent lines may launch 65 ships in the next five years. At the moment, the Commission...
...women. One hermaphrodite, who passed as a Negress, told him: "I have derived great pleasure from, many sexual affairs with women, and never with my two husbands." Dr. Young assured her-him that it would be easy to make her into a man, but only at the cost of her female configuration. The hermaphrodite: "If you did that, I would have to quit my husband and go to work. So I think I'll stay...
...only high enough to yield enough profit to attract the new capital the industry constantly needs. Rates are therefore based upon the value of the utility property involved. All methods of valuation are more or less arbitrary but they tend to run toward two extremes: 1) what it would cost to reproduce the property and 2) what the property originally cost a "prudent investor...