Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other powers, Canada included, expected that after the election the U.S. would be ready to get down to cases on the cost (estimated at $2 billion a year) and the exact extent of U.S. military aid for Europe. Canada was ready to fit her military setup into the overall Atlantic scheme, but obviously her contribution would be mainly in the air, in air training, and as an arsenal of supply...
Stokowski hired him as a soloist in a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, but his dress suit cost as much as he earned. Then he went into the Army a private, and came out a lieutenant, and made enough money singing Red Ball Express in the Broadway G.I. hit Call Me Mister to pay for an encouraging Town Hall debut. His springboard to Aïda: success in Mexico City on the radio and as soloist at President Miguel Alemán's official dinners...
...party of conservatives where today's Old Guard can feel reasonably at home. That is no longer true of the Democratic Party. A large part of the Democratic Old Guard left Truman this summer, and he was able to win without them--and without the Wallace vote, which cost him New York. The President even made heavy inroads into the traditionally-conservative Republican Mid-West. Old Guardism failed to produce substantially for Dewey and it failed to produce substantially against the Democrats. This failure strongly indicates not only that the future of Old Guardism is bleak, but that an intelligent...
Even Bill Cunningham, a former Green player, admits that "the one rules infraction charged against...(Harvard), and it the most minor in the list of possible crimes, cost the Crimson either an equalizing touchdown or a first down on Dartmouth's one-inch line...
...Boston Globe recently had this headline on the first page: "Military Men Like Conant Program But Say It Would Cost Too Much...