Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coast steel plants would depend on electric furnaces fueled by new Bonneville generators to process iron ore (or scrap) directly into steel. A January 1938 War Department publication noted that stainless and other special electrolitic steels for war purposes are "peculiarly adapted for production in the Pacific Coast low cost power areas...
...Chilean ore-at Sparrows Point, Md. Bethlehem Steel takes ores in from Cruz Grande, Chile (4,265 miles away) at a freight cost of $2.50 to $3.00 per ton, plus Panama Canal tolls of $7.20; since no toll need be paid on Chilean ore laid down in Portland (5,739 miles from Cruz Grande), it should be cheaper there...
...problems is persuading people that it is not a relief project. Allotted 1% of the appropriation for each new Federal building, it has adorned 553 of them with painting and sculpture at a cost of $841,000, is now decorating some 400 others. No longer is art restricted to the biggest buildings. Thanks to Government murals, many a small-town post office and courthouse is gay as Joseph's coat...
...carillon for her sunrise services. Nancy thought it was a nice idea, printed the letter. Next day came an anonymous donation of $1 toward the bells. Thereupon Nancy Brown began to reflect: a carillon must have at least 23 bells and a tower in which to mount them would cost anywhere from...
...contributor who signed his name "Angus" suggested light-weight chimes (which cost less) instead of heavy, cast bells. One who called himself "Banker" urged Nancy to hasten, lest inflation raise the cost of the tower. Alarmed, Nancy's donors redoubled their efforts. By last month she had raised $27,700, still needed around $20,000 more. One morning "Banker" came in person to her office, offered to lend her the rest without interest...