Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nursing a broken leg received in the plane crash which cost her husband's life last month (TIME, Jan. 20), self-reliant Explorer Osa Johnson declared in a Los Angeles hospital that she would resume picture-taking in the African jungle, would next trek through the Belgian Congo. Said she: "I am quite capable of managing an expedition by myself...
Bills for the Philadelphia Ballet are paid by Catherine's rich husband Philip Leidy. General opinion was that the Sleeping Beauty cost him $10,000. Mr. Leidy, who loves ballet as much as the law he practices, first met Catherine Littlefield when she was dancing for the Philadelphia Grand Opera which his mother supported. Nobody knows how much their European tour will cost next summer. Miss Littlefield will take her troupe to Paris, Brussels, The Hague and London. She boasts that hers is the first U. S. ballet to venture into Europe...
...Boston. Property owners refused to paint their buildings or paper walls because smoke begrimed those coatings too quickly. Merchants had to keep their store windows lighted, motorists to use their headlights until noon on winter days. The estimates of what these man-made handicaps to living in St. Louis cost ran into fantastic millions...
...young man and beginning a clandestine but innocent correspondence. She developed new hobbies: a morbidly "humanitarian" interest in insanity; a kind of throne-room liberalism in which she prattled social equality, without realizing what a limb she was out on. She built a Greek palace in Corfu (cost to Franzi: 30,000,000 kronen), tried to sell it as soon as it was built. She traveled tirelessly. At 57 Sisi became a great-grandmother. She exercised, traveled, prattled harder than ever...
...precious silt. From immemorial time the Nile's floods have been Egypt's prime worry. Too little water means famine; too much, catastrophe. Since Egypt has been under England's benevolent paw, the Nile has been studied, shackled as never before. British hydrographical research costs $500,000 a year; the great dam at Aswan, built to regulate the Nile's flow, took three years to build, had to be thrice heightened, cost...