Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shout and lie their way into Congress. Once there they will stop at no lie, slander, or debt wished upon posterity, if they think it will keep them there. Members of the Congress, of course, should not be allowed to serve successive terms. Neither should Presidents. To date the cost of reelections in this country is most of the National Debt. Youth should not ask for representation. Youth should take it, and plenty of it. A young fool is a better bet than an old fool...
...Cost of the plan, by Bigelow figuring: $60,000,000 a year.* Tax provisions in the Plan would fix that, said he. The Plan called for a State income tax equal to one-fourth the Federal levy, a new 2% tax on land valuations of more than $20,000 an acre. So vaguely drawn was this financing feature that critics' estimates of how much could be raised varied by millions. Bigelow himself refused to be drawn into the argument, went frighteningly on about his business...
...Bill's colleagues like his bluster and bravado. But whatever they think of Bill personally, Boston newsmen will admit that he has an immense following. It has been estimated that if Cunningham changed his job it would cost the Post 100,000 readers...
...will be men prominent in the textile industry." Inside the pamphlet the textile industry read the summary of its sins-a loss of $98,094,000 for the ten years ending with 1935. Said he, ironically: "Perhaps if we defend our privileges and rights (to sell for less than cost) we may be able to lose even more in the period from...
Clothiers have predicted that men's suits will be up $5 apiece by spring. If so, that rise will cost U. S. consumers about $280,000,000 in the next twelvemonth. All sections of the wool industry last week appeared to be shearing their percentage of this fine clip: raw wool skyrocketed some 60% for the benefit of wool growers; yarns were up 45% to 50%, sweetening the pot for the spinners; and when the U. S. Army went into the market for uniform fabrics, it found prices up about 30% over the bids it could have gotten Sept...