Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fritz Reiner's beautiful, expensive Tristan, his Rosenkavalier that critics called the best U. S. opera of the season. Last week operagoers from all over the East headed again for Philadelphia's Academy of Music to hear sung in English two one-act premieres* that had cost...
...sexual misdeeds had proudly been spread in the official Divine Spoken Word. Meanwhile, in Pasadena, G-men found odd evidence linking Hunt and Divine and indicating Hunt's status in the cult. This was a partly-completed "throne car," being built by a coach works. It was to cost from $25,000 to $40,000 and specifications called for a 265-m.p. Duesenberg motor on a 178-inch wheelbase, the tonneau to contain a raised throne surrounded by seats for eight people, with star-shaped windows on each side and a crescent one in the rear...
...project on the Columbia River will be much bigger. This mighty barrier in the wild heart of Washington, 92 miles west of Spokane, will be not only the world's greatest but the costliest engineering job ever undertaken by man. The dam, power plant and irrigation canals will cost some $400,000,000-$25.000,000 more than the Panama Canal. The rampart across the Columbia, which has ten times the annual run-off of the Colorado, will be 4,300 ft. long, 500 ft. high. It will swallow up 9,500,000 cu. yd. of concrete, three times...
...below the low water surface of the river, 200,000 cu. yd. of clay began to slide down at the rate of two feet an hour, faster than the power shovels could get it out. The contractors were faced with a delay of several weeks and an additional excavation cost of $200,000. The engineers decided to try an old trick invented in Prussia but never before used in U. S. dam construction: freezing the front of the slide. They ran six miles of pipe into the clay, pumped in brine cooled by two big refrigerating machines, bought secondhand...
...formed Publishers Service Co. and began to job-lot sets of Dickens and Mark Twain to other publishers who passed them on to readers at cost. Smelling profits, 36-year-old Leonard Davidow chucked his job as publishers' wholesaler at Reading, Pa. last autumn and joined Stanley Livingston to form his Standard American Corp. and Consolidated Book Publishers...