Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Photography Club is a new organization for Freshmen, having become active only last February when a dark-room, the cost of which was defrayed by the Union and the College, was established in the basement of the Union...
...more prize money than any other owner in the country. But maintaining a racing establishment is expensive business. In 1926, when Trainer Jimmy Rowe was complimented on a $407,139 Whitney season, Rowe said: "Yes, Mr. Whitney had a pretty good year. I don't think his stable cost him more than...
...there is something faddish and affected or else starved and forbidding about many examples of so-called "functional" design. After the fine economies of Colonial building disappeared in the U. S. during the 19th Century, isolated architects of talent were lost in a great drive of construction at any cost. New standards of design and a new rationale of architecture have not since been established in U. S. minds and efforts to establish them have been scattered, tentative and personal...
Their initial cost is some 50% more than that of conventional gasoline engines. Newest types do not work directly on the transmission but generate electric power that propels a vehicle without clutch or gear shift. Last year New Jersey's Public Service Coordinated Transport bought 27 Diesel-electrics from Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing Co. for $12,000 each and at once put them into passenger service. Since then the New Jersey fleet has rolled up 1.000,000 carefully tabulated, experimental miles and the company's enthusiastic report of Diesel results put new bees in many a busman...
When Franklin Roosevelt announced a program of increased power production to lower power rates, Utilityman Ross stormed up & down the Northwest denouncing this as faulty theory, declaring that the cost of power distribution rather than production is what makes rates high. Liking the forthright Ross manner, President Roosevelt put him on the SEC to take care of utility restriction & registration. As administrator of Bonneville. he will have charge both of producing and of marketing power...