Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feed herself. Best hope for Czech as well as Austrian industry is that Dictator Hitler will soon grab some backward, goods-consuming neighbor States. Otherwise it goes without saying that the Czech standard of living will be lowered, for Germans, in general, far from expecting the Czechs to cost them money, hope to profit from them. Next best hope is that other countries will relax and open their markets again to Czech goods...
...function of House dances is not to provide copy for Boston gossip columns nor to compete with Boston night clubs. It is to create throughout the year an inexpensive and congenial social season for House members and their friends. This can best be done by limiting the size and cost of dances and possibly increasing their number...
...food processing, told of new wrapping material then being tried in France for refrigerated meats. The material was latex-pure natural rubber altered just enough to be workable. The trick sounded good to Dewey and Almy Chemical Co. of Cambridge, Mass., which was already using latex to make low-cost balloons ($2.25) for high-altitude meteorological and cosmic ray observation. The company's researchers set to work devising a commercial method for wrapping poultry and meat in latex...
...Ernst Philip Boas and Henry Rawle Geyelin of Columbia, and Drs. Foster Kennedy and Henry Barker Richardson of Cornell sent Manhattan colleagues a mimeographed campaign sheet of brief, basic arguments for health insurance. Compulsory health insurance, they said, would lower the "financial burden of illness by spreading the cost over . . . large groups of people. It would enable the sick to seek medical treatment early in disease. ... It would enable the physician to give more adequate care to [poor] patients because such care would not entail an added financial burden to the patient. ... It would give greater financial stability...
Although Lazaro Cardenas justifies the expropriations on patriotic grounds, there is no question that they have almost brought Mexico to its knees economically. Oil exports have fallen 50%. Cost of living is sharply up. And Cardenas has promised that within ten years Mexico will compensate for all it has taken. General Amaro was the first Presidential candidate to broach this issue. "I deem it unpatriotic," he stormed, "to create obligations of an international character for the country in the knowledge that we have not the financial capacity to comply with them...