Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last resort it is expected that they will file claims for the cost of gasoline for the squad cars, for one gross of tear gas bombs, one book entitled "How to Break Up a Riot," and two broken policemen's clubs...
...appease them the French Government had already been obliged to abolish the Droit de Tab-lier ("Right of the Apron"), the "privilege" of waiters, hat-checkers, washroom attendants, doorkeepers to pay their employers for allowing them to work for tips. In some swank Paris cafés this has cost waiters as much as 100 francs ($4.43) a week. Bricklayers, plumbers, plasterers were keeping the Premier jittery by stringing out construction of buildings for the Paris Exposition, because they fear unemployment when the job is finished. By last week construction on the Exposition was so delayed that the French Government...
...Cost of this foster obstetrics, if Professor File's plan becomes law, may amount to $14,000,000 a year. Local taxpayers are expected to supply $3,500,000. State taxpayers $3,500,000. The rest is expected to come from the Treasury...
...Boxes on the grand tier cost anywhere from $550 to $2.750 for the season. Those who cannot afford the Covent Garden productions will have their own Coronation season of operas at Sadler's Wells Theatre in North London. These will be sung in English, include Vaughan Williams' Hugh the Drover and Gertrude Stein's first ballet, The Wedding Bouquet...
Spurred by the apparent immediacy of transatlantic transport test flights, New York City last week finally bestirred itself to make ready for them. In Manhattan, the Sinking Fund Commission voted to acquire and improve North Beach Airport at a cost of some $8,000,000. On Flushing Bay, L. I., near the site of the coming World's Fair, it can be reached from midtown in 20 minutes over the new Triborough Bridge...