Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...character. The fight in the Senate was started when dapper Senator James F. Byrnes, long rated a close political friend of Franklin Roosevelt, proposed an amendment sponsored by the Appropriations Committee requiring that no Work Relief projects should be undertaken unless the local communities concerned paid 40% of the cost of the projects, or certified to the satisfaction of Relief Administrator Hopkins that they were not financially able to contribute so much. Thus, although an impoverished community would not be deprived of Relief even if the Federal Government had to provide 100% of its cost, a moral brake would...
...lawns of Matignon Palace he had heard the gospel of peace preached once more. Europe, declared the French Premier, is on the verge of catastrophe because everywhere arms are being piled up. Premier Blum's solution: let every interested power "make public their armament programs, together with the cost thereof"; let them then "agree not to exceed these programs...
...last week, was a life story of the Duke of Windsor. Said Producer Castle: "We are now planning to provide home movie enthusiasts with pictures of similar interest at regular intervals, probably twice a month." Items in the News Parade are made for both silent and sound-equipped projectors, cost from $1.75 for an 8-mm., 50-ft. sequence to $17.50 for a 350-ft., 16-mm. sound film. They cannot be rented. Producer Castle expects to sell a total of 10,000.000 ft. of film on his first three releases, representing a private investment of approximately...
Last week when a 19-year-old girl made the 89th death leap, Pasadena's Board of Directors finally yielded to newspaper demands for action. They voted to erect a 71-ft. steel fence crowned with barbed wire the entire length of the bridge. Estimated cost...
...Built in 1906 at a cost...