Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate a bill granting pensions to dependent Gold Star parents and widows of World War soldiers.* Replacing War Risk insurance payments which expire in the next three years, the pension ($45 a month for individual parents. $30 to $45 for widows) will go to 40,000 beneficiaries, cost the U. S. $8,900,000 to begin with...
...selling their own 60-year bonds (guaranteed by the U. S.) to the public. If income from the necessarily low rents fell short of paying off bonds & interest, the Government would chip in up to $20,000,000 a year-an outright subsidy, but a trifle compared to the cost of other Federal efforts to aid the underprivileged. Only tenants qualifying for the new houses would be the rock-bottom 15% of the lower third which President Roosevelt has labeled "ill-housed, ill-clothed, ill-fed"-about 175,000 families earning some $50 a month and paying about $5 rent...
...passage of the bill by the middle of the second day of debate. At the end of the fifth day Senators wearily voted, 64-to-16, for a Housing Bill gutted by conservative amendments. Anti-Administrationist Harry Byrd called attention to Resettlement Administration's Greenbelt in Maryland, which cost $16,000 per family unit, and Hightstown Project in New Jersey ($20,000 per unit). Then he demanded a construction limit of $4,000 per family unit and $1,000 per room. "A spokesman for the Administration," he cried, "said . . . that this was an experiment, and that all experiments were...
...boldest pieces of lobbying ever seen on the floor-mimeographed sheets from New York Housing Authority's Langdon Post maintaining that the per-room limit should not be less than $1,750. Senators owning homes in Washington figured that that was more than their own houses had cost; a comfortable 10-room, brick & stone dwelling even in Washington, they thought, ought not to cost much over...
...industry are good for the coming years." 2) With one exception the percentage of profits in relation to capitalization of the Mexican companies was an average of 34.28% during the years 1934 to 1936, while the U. S. oil companies' percentage of profit was 6.13%. 3) The cost of producing a barrel of oil in Mexico during 1935 was 8.6 pesos, while in the U. S. the cost was 48.1 pesos and 4) on Jan. 1, 1937 the reserves and surpluses of the companies totaled more than $21,000,000. "The principal foreign petroleum companies form great American...