Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ideally the President's plan would shuffle his agencies physically as well as functionally into streamlined new quarters, not only in Washington but out through the land where their scattered regional offices now cost citizens dear in time to find them, deal separately with them. Affected by the altered grouping will be 90,400 Federal employes in all, only 24,982 of them in Washington. The President in this plan did not dwell on the unpopular subject of how many of these jobs would be telescoped...
...example. Jimmy Byrnes has ideas about that. Last week he politely shelved his bill to put WPA into a Department of Public Works (TIME, Jan. 23) but he did not shelve his idea, in which many another friend of Economy concurs, of making the States & cities share the cost of Relief, and cutting down on white-collar projects...
...river next to the Business School. At present this land is lying idle; at the same time the University is complaining that it cannot get a large enough return on its investments. If it were to build such a project and to charge rents low enough to minimize the cost to the instructor of educating his children, even were the land not to be tax-free, the University still would get over a six per cent annual return on its investment, thereby raising its annual income...
...typify the way industry fell for Whalen sales talk. Typical of the gamble exhibitors are taking, General Motors reputedly put $5,000,000 into its building. Since G. M. will sell nothing on the premises, it is investing only in advertising and goodwill. Whether this huge expenditure (plus the cost of operating the exhibit) will pan out is General Motors' worry. Grover Whalen sold it to them. The same may be said for many another individual display. Several industries, such as railroads, glass,* aviation, utilities and petroleum, recognizing the fact, got together on cooperative exhibits where the heavy cost...
...Property owners along Queens Boulevard built $90,000,000 worth of dwellings. The fourth largest suspension bridge in the world (across the East River at Whitestone), an $18,000,000 project, will be opened day before the fair. North Beach airport near the fair was rebuilt at a cost...