Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provides for compulsory controls-marketing quotas (such as are now in force for cotton and tobacco) invoked after two-thirds of the growers approve in a referendum. If crop prices continue falling however, Mr. Wallace declared himself opposed to outright price fixing on the basis of production cost, which "would soak the consumer, sink the farmer, and mean uncontrolled production...
...spade-bearded oldsters and their classically corseted wives sit complacently, laved in the patrician strains of Beethoven and Brahms. So have they sat every week since the late Major Henry Lee Higginson, in 1881, materialized the expensive idea that Boston ought to have a good symphony orchestra. That idea cost Major Higginson a million dollars...
...your names and numbers here. Only 25 cents. It'll cost you 50 cents inside the Stadium. Get your Lampoon here...
...seventy-fifth finer than silk filament, and in some sizes has 150% greater tensile strength. Its elasticity is such that it can be stretched up to 700% of its normal length. So far no one has attempted to produce it commercially. Hence chemists do not know what it will cost, though it is estimated it will be somewhat dearer than rayon, may cost even as much as silk. If it could be manufactured inexpensively, however, it seemed likely to threaten silk's last big U. S. market-the hosiery industry, which last year turned $73,230,000 worth...
...should be in France by now." The information was said to have been given to friends by the former Signovina Fornaroli, the wife of Toscanini's son Walter, and came after Toscanini's had been represented to be determined to sail for the United States Wednesday "at any cost...