Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...routine appropriations they had finished only four bills, with ten yet to go. Experienced observers were predicting last week that outside of the necessary money bills and some decision on Court rejuvenation, all the rest of the major constructive measures set for action this session-wage & hour regulation, low-cost housing, executive reorganization, crop insurance, lessening of farm tenancy, and many others- would either go by the board or be whipped through in slapdash form at session's end. The causes of the stall were clear: the legislative machine had been jammed by President Roosevelt's Supreme Court...
...means reluctant was the Dominion to surrender control of the Yukon, which has cost it nearly eleven million dollars for its development with almost no direct return to Ottawa. Cheerfully the Government consented to make an annual grant to British Columbia of $125,000 for five years to help meet the expense of taking over...
Upon the Journal which Dr. Fishbein edits the A. M. A. depends for practically every dollar of its operating expenses. The Journal last year, Dr. Fishbein last week reported, earned $1,547,218. Operating expenses: $909,418. Net profit: $637,800. Cost of running the A. M. A.: $411,029. Other expenses, other income balanced to make a net income to the A. M. A. of $113,112 for last year. Adding this to accumulations of past years made a total reserve of $2,260,392 and total assets (including property...
...with all production-control schemes, purpose of the Chadbourne plan was to raise prices. They dropped. In 1930 the average world price of sugar was1½?per Ib. In 1932 it was 10?, considerably below the cost of production. With tariffs and import quotas keeping the world market limited without any limit on the amount of sugar dumped in London, the price has remained depressed. Last week raw sugar at Cuban docks was quoted on Manhattan's Coffee & Sugar Exchange at 1.18? per Ib., with domestic contracts being made...
Such an enumeration, though considerably larger than the one ordered by the Lord for the Hebrew tribes, would not necessitate a huge expenditure. For the census, if undertaken by the constituted relief authorities, would not cost much more than the extra expense for stationery and cigars for the field force and light wines and beer for the secretariat...