Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without the slightest desire to discuss the question of armaments, it seems appalling to think that the cost of a modern battleship would keep nearly 4,000,000 people "alive" for one year...
...possibilities of the 150's going to England at the end of this year seem few. When he was questioned on this point Bert Haines smiled and said it would cost too much money, but he wasn't definite, and there have been rumors of an "angel" in the offing, which are unfounded...
...informal talk on "American Medicine: Today and Tomorrow" in the Lowell House Common Room last night, Dr. Hugh Cabot of the Mayo Clinic urged that the cost of medical care be reduced by extending "group medicine...
...themselves as "babes in the woods." The three: Brokers Robert R. Young and Frank B. Kolbe and a Woolworth company heir, Allan P. Kirby. Mr. Ball sold them 1,933,810 shares (43%) of the common stock in Alleghany Corp., the holding company just below Midamerica. This stock had cost Mr. Ball less than $270,000. He sold it for $4,000,000 cash, plus a $2,375,000 note payable May 5, 1939 and secured by 1,200,000 of the Alleghany shares...
...Cincinnati and nearby cities, invited famed Conductor Theodore Thomas to bring his own orchestra. The festival was such a rip-roaring success that it became the talk of every small town in the Midwest. Five years later, Cincinnatians decided that their festival needed a permanent home. So at a cost of $310,000 they built themselves what was then the largest and finest concert auditorium in the U. S. Today Cincinnati's enormous, ancient, many-spired Music Hall still stands. The paint on its walls has chipped off and its roof leaks, but it is one of the half...