Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sicilians that "the lush old days of the Roman Emperor Augustus" were the only fitting comparison with the Fascist regime. To the crowd jam-packing the public square of Syracuse he shouted that Italy was "ready for any struggle, prepared for any sacrifice & determined to snatch victory" at any cost. Then, remembering the recent improvement in Anglo-Italian relations, he stood on the prow of a dummy destroyer erected in Messina's flag-strung streets, minimized the importance of the war games with a wish to "dispel untimely & absurd alarms darkening the horizon, because my journey to Sicily...
Since it is hard to shoot grouse without encroaching on one of the 800 private highland moors, renting them to individuals and syndicates is a big business. Rent is usually computed on the estimated yield at $5 a brace. A moor will cost from $1,000 to $35,000 for the six-week season...
From that point money is spent with great rapidity by hosts and guests on dogs (which cost up to $40 apiece to rent), dozens of beaters ($2 each a day), a loader for each gun ($2.50 a day), shells, servants, tips, food. To bring down one grouse costs between $5 and $10. This year's Glorious Twelfth, however, dawned unpromisingly with rentals expected to total only about $1,500,000, as compared to the $7,500,000 of a peak year like 1929. That indicated that Scotsmen would be shooting a great many of their own birds this year...
...jointly by the Chevrolet Division of General Motors and 120 U. S. newspapers, had been having the time of their lives for three days at Chevrolet's expense in Akron's Mayflower Hotel. Their vehicles were miniature rubber-tired automobiles constructed by the contestants at a maximum cost of $10. To carry to the world the news of which coaster-wagon rolled down the 1,175-11. chute fastest, there were no less than 15 press wires...
...Investors rather than mineralogists, the Guggenheims hired famed mining engineer John Hays Hammond in 1902 at the record salary of $250,000 a year plus a quarter interest in new mines recommended by him. (Doodling statisticians, putting his first year's pay at $1,250,000, figured it cost the Guggenheims 75? every time Hammond said...