Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over streets and roads on which 24 hours per day no car is permitted to park or make a U-turn, not even in the country after Moscow has been left behind. The Dictator's motorcade consists always of three cars, generally enclosed 12-cylinder Hispano-Suizas. These cost in France, where they are made, as high as 250,000 francs ($7,700) for each chassis alone, rank among Europe's fastest cars. In Stalin's case, the tonneau windows of the three Hispanos are fitted on each side with blue glass, concealing the occupants and making...
...Tobacco Corp. For the third year Humble Oil & Refining Co. of Houston will have a monopoly of Southwest Conference games. On the Pacific Coast, Associated Oil Co. ("Let's Get Associated") began its twelfth and biggest broadcasting season, during which it will sponsor about 100 "sportcasts" at a cost...
...miles shorter than the present Lincoln Highway-which it crosses three times. Of the almost 14,000 ft. of cumulative climb on the Lincoln Highway, 10,000 ft. will be missing in the new road. Only bottlenecks will be the two-lane tunnels. The almost $400,000-a-mile cost to widen and surface the road, to drain and finish boring tunnels, to employ an estimated 17,000 men for three years, is to be paid for by the eventual users-$1 toll per car, $7 for trucks...
Back in Circulation (First National) should please cinemaddicts who admire portrayals of brash reporters and nail-hard editors whose presses must be fed regardless of human cost. This time the brazen star reporter is a female named Timmy Blake (Joan Blondell). She loves her apparently unconcerned managing editor, Bill Morgan (Pat O'Brien). He loves her too but has no time for foolishness. Between the first sequence and the last, Joan Blondell swoops through a breathlessly foreshortened flight of pseudo-newsfalconry. She gets an innocent woman indicted for murder, flattens a leering lounger with a right hook...
They will contribute three to four percent of their annual salaries and the University will contribute equal amounts to this sum, thus making a handsome annuity policy. In addition, those employees who have been with the University for more than nine months, will receive life insurance premiums without cost to themselves...