Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...launch whispering campaigns. The once brassy voice of the C.I.O. Political Action Committee had fallen off to a scarcely heard murmur. Democrats (who except for Harry Truman, were sure they would lose) and Republicans (who were sure they would win) displayed the utmost reluctance to contribute funds. The campaigns cost more than ever (price of a two-week transcontinental tour: $50,000), but the war chests of both parties had been all but empty for weeks...
...true that the airlift is expensive in terms of dollars. Measured in terms of prestige, measured in the courage which it has brought to millions of people who desire freedom, measured indeed in comparison to our expenditures for European assistance and to our expenditures for national defense, its cost is insignificant. It can, it must, be continued until there is a stability in Europe which assures peace." General Clay did not try to guess when that time would come. But last week he thought he could see the light at the end of the tunnel. Said he: "There...
...they passed another asking pensions for veterans of both wars-$60 a month at 55, $75 a month after 65. Such laws would add more than $1 billion to the federal budget right away; by 1985, when the average World War II veteran is 55 or older, it would cost more than $8 billion a year...
...high mountain winds. He proudly donned his postmasters' convention badge, dutifully attended the sessions, listened gravely as Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson declared that the post office faced a record $550 million deficit, that Congress should overhaul its "horse & buggy rates." Penny postcards, Donaldson pointed out, cost the department 2.6? to print, sell, and handle, and 95% of them are sold to advertisers who flood the mails with them "by the billions." Gus nodded soberly...
...special appeal of an activities center is its association with a general, rather than with a departmental interest of the members of the University; and the only question of its suitability as a memorial, apart from its possibly prohibitive cost, is whether its memorial character might wear away as years and generations pass, or be impaired by the obsolescence of the physical structure or, perhaps, by changes in the ways and needs of the student community...