Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sixth, reduce relief expenditure by one-third through decentralizing its administration. Take it out of the hands of wasters and politicians and put it back into nonpolitical committees in each community and require the States and local communities to find 5 or 10% of the cost. That will provide greater and more sympathetic care for those in distress. It will restore confidence that the republic is not being destroyed by the purchase of elections...
...Total value of U. S. war material shipments to Germany since 1935 is $1,634,227-barely enough to kill 65 soldiers, since the average cost of a war death is estimated at $25,000. Last week, 20,000 bombs, sold by Atlas Powder Co. of Wilmington, Del. were hoisted aboard North German Lloyd's freighter, Frankcnwald, before the freighter upped anchor for Bremen. The bombs, last of four shipments sold "to parties in the U. S.," cleared by the State Department, were for transshipment when they reach Germany. Where the shipment would eventually wind up, no official would...
...think there ought to be a certain amount of culture in the land and that some of it probably ought to come from one Greater New York station. . . . Doesn't this kind of programming cost us jack we'll never get? You should hear what our treasurer says! If he got real nasty you know what we'd do? We'd blow a tickler in his face, that's what...
Criticism has been raised against the conflict of dates and extravagance of cost under the present system. Objection has been found to the high priced bands, the deficit incurred by most of the dance committees, and the non-restrictive attendance...
...honor system and each boy takes a pledge not to smoke during term time. The plan provides for double class periods, half of them allotted to study for the next lesson under supervision of the teachers, and for independent research by the students. The Richards plan is costly, requiring 40% more teachers, but last week Headmaster Richards reported it was worth the cost. Of the 242 boys Lake Forest has sent to college in the last five years, only three flunked out in freshman year...