Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME taken in by the Garner build-up when it reported (March 20, p. 13) that "he has recently built with his own money 25 houses for about $2,000 each in Uvalde, the like of which cost FHA one-third more"? I understand that FHA does not build houses, merely insures mortgages on them. ... All of which is no reflection on the Sage of Uvalde...
...adopted, the other, Mary, whose birth in 1950 cost Producer Jed Harris two weeks' pay for the rest of the cast of Coquette when Mother MacArthur's confinement closed the show. Unsuccessful defense by Mr. Harris: that Mary's birth was "an act of God." † Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt last fortnight "adopted" a Spanish Civil War orphan, Lorenzo Murias, 12, through an organization called the Foster Parents Plan for Children in Spain, by which refugee children are kept in France at a cost to U. S. foster parents of $9 per month...
...control of disease, group practice offers numerous advantages over the individual physician. Under this new system, it is easy for a case to receive a complete diagnosis by experts in several fields. Although the personal relationship between physician and patient suffers in group practice, the saving in time and cost more than counterbalances this loss. The enormous reduction in overhead expense, caused by the elimination of duplication in laboratory equipment and office space, can serve both to make possible lower fees for patients and a relatively higher and more stable income for the physician...
Ascitic fluid is not so good as whole blood, because it is not so rich, but it has two important advantages: 1) it can be obtained "without cost"; 2) it can be safely refrigerated for periods as long as five months, while ordinary blood deteriorates within two weeks. "Thus it can be moved long distances, as in the case of a war, so long as it is safely cooled," concluded Dr. Davis...
...autobiographical volumes, As I Was Going Down Sackville Street and Tumbling in the Hay, tell of his indiscreet youth, his love of laughter and low company, his delight in stories of his own and other people's misbehavior. One such got him into a libel suit which cost him ?900. But when Patrick Kavanagh, young Irish poet, published The Green Fool (TIME, Feb. 27), fun-loving Dr. Gogarty could not see the joke. In it Kavanagh told of visiting Dublin as a tramp with literary aspirations, calling on Gogarty: "I mistook Gogarty's white-robed maid...