Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tower a perilous 75 ft. from shore, jetties were built, the sea restored its sand, the city sprawled out over the new land. Now Absecon stands 1,500 ft. from shore, its ocean view blocked by tall apartment houses and hotels. Its 1½acres which cost $520 in 1854 are now appraised at $312,450; with tower and two cottages, at $414,450. First three prospective purchasers to inspect it were night club proprietors...
...testimony was offered by the trio's accuser, Gertrude Davey, proprietor of Hollywood's Lon Chancy Jr. Cafe. Red-haired Mrs. Davey told of going to Pete Werner's law office and paying Queen Helen a $250 installment of the $500 she was told it would cost to recover her revoked liquor license from the State Board of Equalization. Queen Helen, she said, boasted that she controlled three members of the Board, exclaimed: "My dear, these things come high. You see, there are railroad fares and hotel bills and we have to take care of the boys...
...began July 22, the House voted to declare that it had held semiweekly "skeleton sessions" since that date, proceeded to enter these sessions in its journal. Thereby each Representative was entitled to collect for 40 round trips between his home and Columbus which he had not taken, at a cost to Ohio taxpayers of $21,507. Dismayed were Representatives when a grudging farmer named Arnett Harbage got wind of this skulduggery, secured an injunction to forestall it. Until he learned that he would have to sue each Senator individually, Taxpayer Harbage, a determined writer of letters-to-the-editor, also...
...Court, the road claimed that it is impossible to determine in advance exactly how many passengers will take a train, that the officials do as best they can. The road admitted that day-coach passengers unable to find seats may legally take unoccupied seats in Pullmans at no extra cost. Lawyer Davis retorted that several on his trip who tried this were refused permission. Last week the N. Y. Central rested its defense on the ground that Lawyer Davis had not proven that "the railroad failed to make a reasonable effort to provide sufficient accommodations...
Times-Union and Eagle split about even on circulation, found the advertising competition of Manhattan's tabloids and Hearst's "Brooklyn editions" keen. About two months ago the Eagle and the Times-Union announced a combination rate which gave advertisers insertions in both papers at the cost of one. Last week's merger, no surprise in view of this advertising deal, meant that Publisher Peck was to retire from the newspaper field. Still on his hands was the Times-Union shop, not included in the $900,000 deal because the Eagle's present plant, built...