Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cost him 11? to ride on the Fifth Avenue line, 6? on other privately owned lines, 7? on city-owned lines. On some buses he put the extra penny (or pennies) in the coin box, on some he handed it to the driver, on others he dropped it in a special tray. He paid 6? to transfer to the subway from a private line, 5? from a city line, and could not transfer to the subway at all from the Fifth Avenue line. For a transfer from a subway (10?) to a bus, he paid...
...Coliseum launched a $10 million public subscription campaign to bring Laval up-to-date. The university would spread over an area of one square mile in the spacious St. Foye district. There would be white stone buildings, a swimming pool and broad reaches of campus. It would cost $100 million and the whole job would take 50 years. Premier Maurice Duplessis made the first move: a check for $2,000,000 from the province of Quebec...
...Juan Perón was seriously worried by strains within his regime, his show had given him a good chance to warn his enemies that he could still produce a potent mob of the faithful on short notice. Thus, the plot might be worth whatever it might cost in bad relations with the U.S. In any case, Juan Perón proved that he still knows how to polish off a general strike: he declared next day a general holiday, so everybody could rest...
...reached in his pocket and handed me a [diamond] bracelet . . . which must have cost $20,000. I snatched it from him and flung it into a corner. Flo didn't flick an eye to see where it went, but I did, and Patricia Ziegfeld still wears it on very formal occasions...
Ingeniously staged on two levels-living room below, bedrooms above-the play is consistently written at one level: get a laugh at any cost. Actually, if it showed a little more self-respect, it might be considerably more amusing...