Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole Hepburn base program would cost perhaps $1,500,000,000, and Franklin Roosevelt's allotment of $44,000,000 would only start it. But the Guam base was enough to excite Congressmen and some officials of the State Department, who feared that it might irritate belligerent Japan...
...privilege of looking out on some of the city's few trees. But the west side of the park, which has a similar view, is no slum. It, too, has fine buildings in which the annual rent of an apartment is as much as the cost of building a modest home. Such a building is the San Remo, whose services employes struck three months...
...Republican candidates in many States, as it is in Washington for anti-New Dealers, Economy was Julius Heil's campaign watchword. After getting elected, with a working majority in both houses of the Legislature, he sat down to draft his budget. State government cost Wisconsin $71,600,000 during the last two years. Governor-elect Heil said he was going to cut that 15 or 20% for the next biennium...
When Governor Heil sat down to make good, he was confronted by estimates put in by department heads calling for appropriations totalling $96,600,000. It was then that Businessman Heil came face to face with the political fact that some of the biggest items of government cost nowadays are the hardest to reduce. For example: pensions, relief and welfare, highways, public education...
...mood of high scorn for the incompetence and extravagance of public officials. He asked President Clarence A. Dykstra (pronounced dike´-struh) of the University of Wisconsin-formerly Cincinnati's efficient city manager, with whom Governor La Follette replaced Republican Dr. Glenn Frank-for a breakdown showing the cost-per-student of each department in the university. He said that in his business, when a department was found inefficient, it was discontinued. Said he, "I want to know if there is a cancerous growth, and if there is, I want to cure it or kill the patient." He said...