Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Back on the special train, he stopped at Grand Coulee Dam, which will eventually be 550 ft. high, 4,300 ft. long, will cost $181,101,000, (not counting $208,500,000 for irrigation canals),will impound a reservoir almost big enough for Paul Bunyan to bathe in. Said the President: ''My head is full of figures and the easiest way to describe the figures is that this is the largest structure so far as anyone knows that has ever been undertaken...
...full cooperation over Spain may be dismissed. It was clear that II Duce and Der Fuhrer were both bidding-and bidding jointly-for close and peaceful relations with Britain and France, to the exclusion of Soviet Russia and Leftist Spain. Assuming that Mussolini's state visit to Hitler cost $1,000,000-and the colossal splurge of decorations in German cities alone footed up to at least that-the whole show was a $1,000,000 Fascist way of saying to the Democracies, "You agree to our joining up with you-OR ELSE...
...good old "Snatch," his many ruling class friends have been influentially murmuring in London ever since, but an old imperial precedent is in favor of the foreign nation which is to blame always paying the indemnity. For example the assassination in Egypt of Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack cost Egyptians exactly $2,300,000 (TIME. Dec. 1, 1924). In the painful dilemma of 1937, Britain's Cabinet last week announced that the House of Commons will be asked to vote ?5,000 ($25,000) to "Snatch." Fully convalescent. Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen left Shanghai for a holiday...
Professor Berry is an outstanding authority on power engineering and he will discuss the contribution which the various Natural Sciences make to the practical production of low cost power. He will also take up the currently important topic of government and municipal power plants and "yardsticks" of power costs. This should make the meeting an interesting one for scientists and non-scientists alike...
...every housewife knows, the current high price of meat. Last week choice steers were selling for $19.50 a cwt. in Chicago, highest price in 18 years, and angry housewives had to pay 47½?; a Ib. for sirloin which they could buy two years ago for 36? and which cost but 52? in the boom year...