Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Weekly board, excluding breakfast," Sperry continued, "may be secured for less than $5, and I am afraid that Divinity students, for this reason, would not be in favor of a graduate housing unit that would mean an increase in the cost of meals...
...been poured into Hungary's impressive Houses of Parliament. Standing on the Rudolph Quay in Pest (i.e., on the left bank of the Danube, the flat half of Budapest), this 19th-Century, Gothic-style building ranks as one of the largest legislative palaces of the world. It cost $8,000,000, covers four-and-one-half acres, has a dome 315 feet high. It was intended, when built, to show Hungary's importance, but after World War I, which reduced Hungary's population and territory by 70%, the country scarcely rated such an edifice. Few things...
...Department of Commerce's October report from nearly 3,000 wholesalers showed a 6.5% drop in volume of sales, a 6.3% drop in dollar value from September. Meanwhile, inventories (from 1,729 firms) were up 3½% (in cost value) from September, 6% from October...
...holiday melon. The melon consisted of two parts. Under its profit-sharing plan,* instituted in 1934, employes of five or more years' service shared $2,400,000 (compared to $556,800 last year). Under the three-year-old plan of adjusting wages to the cost of living (U. S. Department of Labor Index), employes shared another $2,350,000 (almost $1,000,000 less than 1938). Together, the two bonuses add 5-75% to employes' earnings for 1939's last six months...
...Nashua, N. H., shoemaker, have got along fine. The arrangement between them has been that Melville contracts to take most (now 92%) of McElwain's yearly output, to be sold through its 652 Thom McAn chain stores. Under the plan the factory sold shoes to the distributor at cost, took a percentage of net profits from sales. This streamlined combine, which eliminated all conflict between the two main branches of an industry, did away with the expense of changing over machines, putting new models of shoes into production. It never failed to show a profit. Its boast was that...