Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should be easy enough. But before that job could be attended to, something had to be done about the gold standard. Ever since the U. S. Government increased the price of gold, the Phi Beta Kappa Society had been losing money hand over fist on its gold Key, whose cost remained unchanged, although its gold content was reduced. To cover this deficit, and also incidentally to pay for an intellectual freedom campaign on the side, the Society was found to be in need of $300,000. And while the world felt itself rolling nearer and nearer the edge of eternity...
...then, up in the House came a bill to authorize the building or expansion of twelve naval bases, ten in the Pacific, two in the Atlantic. The lot would cost only $51,500,000 (to be appropriated later), but the forward sweep of the national defense program was momentarily halted by one little phrase: "And Guam, $5,000,000." Chairman Carl Vinson of the Naval Affairs Committee was rudely surprised to find that this was a fighting phrase. Debate over it raged hot and angrily for three days. During the fight, the Congress and the country clarified some of their...
Less pleased were Mr. Cover and his boss, President Donald Wills Douglas, with the sales potentialities of DC-5's big, four-motored brother DC-4, now completed at a reputed development cost...
...wished that he could put the hay away wet or dry, and that he could store it in a silo the way he does corn fodder. Last week the enterprising Monsanto Chemical Co. of St. Louis told him that he could-if he would just use a new, low-cost, scientific treatment which Monsanto has trademarked as "Phosilage...
...report also charged that city has the highest "per pupil salary cost" in Massachusetts. The bulletin attacked the increased pay rate for schoolteachers saying that the number of teachers had risen by 106 since 1926 while the number of pupils had dropped...