Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After being taken for a tour of TVA dams, power plants, etc. as a member of Congress' joint investigating committee, Republican Representative Tom Jenkins of Ohio snorted: "These great inland seas . . . may be beautiful playgrounds, but they will cost . . . more than the Panama Canal...
...with their grants, in each case 45% of the cost of the proposed new plants: Saranac Lake, N. Y., $225,000; Mount Pleasant, Mich., $218,000; Covington, Va., $181,636: Galax, Va., $129,000; Caruthersville, Mo., $79,000; Cleveland, Okla., $63,000; Okmulgee, Okla., $406,800; Columbus, Miss., $126,000 plus a loan of $155,000; Meridian, Miss., $638,182 plus a loan of $780,000; Cuero, Tex., $101,000: Gonzales, Tex., $78,000; San Antonio, Tex., $2,770,000; Texarkana, Tex., $245,000 plus a loan of $300,000; Weslaco, Tex., $94,500; Wharton, Tex., $90,000; Wichita Falls...
...test for pregnancy (TIME, Oct. 12, 1935), as Medicine's favored fish. Called telescope fish- because it has big. pop eyes, one out of five is so transparent that its gall bladder, intestine, heart and a big vein in the tail are easily seen. Although telescope fish cost only 3? apiece in Philadelphia, only place in the U. S. where they are bred, the visibility of their internal organs makes them precious to medical scientists, particularly to Philadelphia Pharmacologist Arno Viehoever. Dr. Viehoever discovered that the transparent water flea, Daphnia, was a marvelous creature in which to study...
...shows two elflike characters making love, smoking cigarets, blowing smoke rings ; it will have a different theme every two months. Located at 43rd Street and Broadway, it is a half-block long, two-and-a-half stories high, uses electricity sufficient to illuminate a city of 5,000, will cost P. Lorillard & Co. $5,000 a month...
Most exclusive of the finishing schools are Foxcroft and Farmington. Tuition and board at Farmington cost $1,800 a year. Farmington does not prepare girls for college (but will make exceptions to this rule beginning next fall). Some Farmington rules...