Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only a Landslide. In traditionally Republican Iowa, the story was much the same. Aging, ailing Senator George Wilson, handicapped by a mouth operation which had cost him his lower teeth, was losing ground fast to the Democrats' ex-Senator Guy Gillette. In a year when Iowans had already shown their dissatisfaction with the ins by dumping Republican Governor Robert Blue (TIME, June 21), it looked as though Guy Gillette, who has' always had a big following in both parties, could be stopped only by a thundering Dewey landslide...
...Navy this week proudly released an artist's drawing of its new supercarrier. Unnamed as yet, the CVA-58 will cost an estimated $124 million. Though the money is still to be appropriated, the Navy has scraped together enough to start laying its keel by early 1949. From its decks, the Navy claimed, planes carrying the atomic bomb will be able to reach and bomb 92% of all possible targets anywhere in the world...
Born. To Maria del Rosario Cayetana, Duchess of Montoro, 22, only child of the 17th Duke, of Alba (Spain's top nobleman and ex-Ambassador to Britain) whose wedding last October cost $300,000' and Don Luis Martinez de Irujo y Artazoz 27, blueblooded onetime able seaman in Franco's navy: their first child, a son; in Madrid
...Department of Agriculture had grown hoarse trying to explain the Alice-in-Wonderland economics of potatoes. It had burned potatoes, given them away for school lunches, let them rot, virtually given them away for making alcohol and flour-all at enormous cost to taxpayers and consumers. But as long as the Government supported the price of potatoes ($2.70 a hundredweight to Maine growers) farmers kept on raising more high-priced potatoes than consumers could afford...
...bubble has burst. First of all, the Committee says that it would be too difficult to raise the money. Including the cost of endowment, an item which was for some reason not considered last February, the building might now cost close to $1,500,000. But Yale has set a $10,000,000 goal for its memorial, and Dartmouth, considerably smaller in size, has already raised close to $1,600,000 for a $4,000,000 project. Harvard has never been a poor man's school...