Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three-Horse Team. "Democracy in many lands has failed for the time being to meet human needs. People . . . have forgotten the lessons of history that the ultimate failures of dictatorships cost humanity far more than any temporary failures of democracy. ... As yet there is no definite assurance that the three-horse team of the American system of government will pull together. If three well-matched horses are put to the task of plowing up a field where the going is heavy, and the team of three pull as one, the field will be plowed. If one horse lies down...
...capital stock of new factories set up in the areas Edward VIII used to tour. South Wales is to get several brand-new plants in which war explosives will be made, and in Lancashire a single new factory erected to fill projectiles with these explosives is to cost ?6,000,000 ($30,000,000)-or three times the sum given by Lord Nuffield...
...tail-end of last week's debate Labor Party Leader Major Clement Attlee mustered practically his followers' full strength behind a motion to censure the Baldwin Cabinet on the grounds that their Rearmament program is: 1) dealing a blow to the League of Nations; 2) raising the cost of living in the United Kingdom, 3) preparing the way for an eventual new Depression more disastrous than the last. By a vote of 241 to 117 this Labor motion was defeated. Next the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin put Rearmament to the test, triumphed overwhelmingly as the Government bill passed...
...unable to use a new shell which had just arrived from Seattle, Washington, the gift of Chandler Hovey, whose son is a member of the sophomore class. The boat was built during the last month by George Pocock, reputedly the best shell builder in the United States, at a cost...
...famed but unpublishable ballad, The Bastard King of England, generally credited to Kipling, is supposed to have cost him the post of Poet Laureate...