Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poster, We, the People had been sold to a Tammany leader of Representative Bloom's district, Congressmen demanded an investigation of the commission, eliminated a $50,000 appropriation for it. Last week, although Representative Bloom protested that $35,000 for the new picture would include the frame and cost of hanging, Congressmen, a bit fed up, rejected the resolution...
...long wanted: his "dream house." To newshawks he showed its shape, outlined in the woods with stakes and string. Contracts were let last week to Adams, Faber Co. of Montclair, N. J. Architects: Franklin Roosevelt and Arthur Tombs of Manhattan and Atlanta (who laid out Georgia Warm Springs Foundation). Cost: $15,000. Name: "Dutchess Hill." Style: Dutch colonial. Material: native stone (from old fences). Rooms: five (living-dining room 34 by 22). Roof: slate. Furniture: old mahogany. Telephones: none. Occupancy: November ("just in time to close it for the winter...
...Businessmen have been increasingly confused by 44 Federal and State fair-trade laws, by a jungle of anti-price-discrimination statutes. Governmental agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission have wondered just how much these 20th Century laws have improved or hampered trade, how much they have raised the cost of living. In April, WPA announced that it would find out, through a marketing laws survey, since estimated to require two years and $2,000,000. Last week it set about establishing offices in 200 cities from which to interview businessmen and consumers, spy on prices in their native haunts...
Johnnie Morris, as he is now called, is on the company's payroll for life at about $20,000 a year, including the cost of an automobile and other perquisites furnished him. And with an advertising expenditure vastly smaller than its competitors Philip Morris has for five years had the fastest growth of them all. This, Milton Biow lays to the fact that Philip Morris has stuck to one theme and one slogan without switching from one idea to another every few months as do many others. At any rate Philip Morris spent only $908,497 for advertising (exclusive...
...descendant of Daniel Boone, a newspaperman who has worked in Honolulu, New York, the Dutch East Indies, Author Robertson called his family chronicle Travelers' Rest. When Northern firms turned it down he organized the Cottonfield Publishers with two friends, brought out the book at a cost equal to the price of "19 bales of eight-cent cotton." An honest, spotty book. Travelers' Rest traces the violent history of an old Southern family through their fights with nature, the neighbors, and each other, shows old pioneers with their buckskins off and their coonskin caps hanging from the wrong hatracks...