Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their rate book shows that they charge $500 per mile for stringing the lines to their customers. If the customers connect to the line at the time it is strung, each customer receives a rebate of $100. If, then, there are five customers in any mile, the line-stringing costs the customers nothing. If there were but one customer to a mile, it would cost but ($400. . . . J. A. GALLERY Tuscola County Advertiser Caro, Mich...
...home Japan finds the estimated $4,000,000-a-day cost of the war a severe strain on her finances. Main sections of the National Mobilization Act, placing all phases of the national life under government control, have had to be invoked...
...impossible to expect an early termination of this tragic state while the Mufti is using French-mandated territory for his operations. . . . Meanwhile, young Jews, with their patience exhausted and with the obvious inability of the British to protect them, are having a fling at their Arab enemies! cost them what...
William Kissam Vanderbilt called it Idle Hour: a 100-room house in Oakdale, Long Island, as sumptuous and showy as a Summer Palace of the Romanovs. Thirty years ago it cost about $7,000,000, but nowadays it is a bit run down. Last week 500 Truth Students, Adepts and Master Metaphysicians twitched on hard chairs in the big reception hall with its encrusted ceiling, ivory-colored fireplace, concealed pipe organ. Above the doors were signs reading "Peace, Discrimination, Enlightenment, Inspiration." James Bernard Schafer, Master Metaphysician, entered...
...Agreed to consider defense testimony from American Telephone & Telegraph Co. in defense of monopolistic practices. After a three-year investigation at a cost of $1,500,000, Federal Communications Commissioner Paul Walker three months ago submitted to Congress his preliminary report on A. T. & T., suggesting among other things a 25% cut in telephone rates (TIME, April 11). A. T. & T. claimed that it had been refused the right to cross-examine witnesses and offer a prepared defense. Last week. FCC agreed to consider such defense before submitting its final report to Congress...