Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest gripe was over maintenance. In 1939 the cost of repairing, greasing, parking, storing and washing the private motorist's automobile had totaled $462 million dollars. It rose to $577 million in 1941, sank to an average of $490 million a year during the restricted war years. But in 1946, hand in hand with other costs, it jumped to $814 million, in 1947 to $995 million and seemed certain to be more than a billion dollars...
Weaving down Dunster Street with a catalogue under his arm, Vag was stopped by a double-breasted sharkskin for sale at $65. He realized with a shock that the suit would cost him the same as Comp. Lit. 3. Here was a new equality; he had never thought of education in those terms before. Either fabric was less or learning was more--in any case, it was a change. A well cut suit, he thought. I wonder if Comp. Lit. 3 is well...
...would also have cost the HAA over...
...Coulson to limited service at end, and of Hal Moffle to unlimited action in the backfield. In the offensive scrimmage against the Freshmen Prince Hal flashed some of the running form which made him one of the few bright spots in the Stadium last autumn, but the layoff has cost him temporarily the split-second timing needed in the Michigan style single wing...
Vice-President Edward Reynolds '15 attributed the new rates to a substantial rise in the cost of food," and warned that the new level is by no means final. "There appears to be very little prospect of a noticeable decline in the near future," he said...