Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expensive" Blamire said. "Fire inspection rules require steel fire doors, and we'd have to plaster the basement ceiling." As estimated, one fire door would cost about...
...Hooper termed Herter's voting record on such issues as housing and rent control "conservative." We believe, on the contrary, that a vote for all amendments to weaken OPA, to lift price ceilings on existing homes for sale, against Government subsidy of low cost housing, and for the Walcott "kill rent control" bill is reaction, pure and simple...
...childless. She was also bored; she wanted a paper of her own, not to make money (she still draws no salary) but as an outlet for her restless energy. She talked her husband, Harry Frank Guggenheim, of the wealthy copper and nitrate family, into putting up the cash. It cost him, eventually, $750,000. Newsday, out of the red for two years, is now paying him back...
Pounds & Pence. What is it all going to cost? Britain is now paying general practitioners a total of ?45,000,000 ($180,000,000) a year. The prewar total income of G.P.s: ?28,000,000 ($112,000,000). But general practitioners are only part of John Bull's medical bill. Meanwhile, the Health Ministry and those who oppose socialized medicine are busy hurling statistics at each other. The British Dental Association claims that the plan is costing the government seven times the estimated cost for dentistry. Not so, says Bevan: the estimated ?7,000,000 ($28,000,000) will...
...Clothes, Inc. (TIME, Oct. 25), two suitmakers, a shirtmaker, and a big men's wear retailer last week announced price cuts ranging from 6% to 20%. And the Department of Labor reported that food prices dropped 0.6% from mid-August to mid-September, with the result that the cost of living remained the same in mid-September as a month before, ending a steady advance of five months. (The index has still to show the effects of the newer food and clothing cuts...