Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Oct. 4). Higher still-by about 1? per Ib.-is kosher beef, which must be butchered sacrificially, handled ceremoniously. Last fortnight 5,000 New York City kosher butchers-who for months have had the unpleasant job of asking Jewish housewives to pay $1.35 for cuts which last year cost $1 - shut up shop, noisily announced they would not reopen until meat prices were down...
...clear yesterday by the powers behind the serving of the three-meal-a-day routine. Not made obvious to the undergraduate epicurean was whether the University would continue the present policy throughout the year in an attempt to defy rising prices of meat and similar commodities. At present the cost of the college's food bill has risen fifteen percent. Unless this upward turn ceases and backs down to the norm, the college may find it necessary to increase the rates and also lower the quality. The latter possibility is almost as intolerable as sand...
Despite the rising cost of almost every type of food, no immediate change is contemplated in either the menus or the price of meals served by the University, according to Roy L. Westcott, Director of the University Dining Halls...
There are still ten berths open to undergraduates or graduates who wish to take advantage of the savings offered by going on the special train. Since sleeper and pullman accomodations are necessary, however, the cost is still high, and the expense was given as the reason that not many undergraduates took advantage of the offer by Edward D. Bement '08 who is in charge of the trip...
...News was also said to be the end of Mr. Hearst's three-month "reconstruction" plan to kill three newspapers, effect other economies. In nine years the Bee News had cost Publisher Hearst nearly $7,000,000. The most expert Hearst tinkering could not save a losing proposition from Nebraska's preference for a home-grown product...