Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they voted Demo-Christian last spring. When the electoral results became known, local Demo-Christians told them of the government's financial difficulties and the need for patience, so the people of Arsoli modified their request. Instead of begging for a pump which would cost 12 million lire (about $21,000), they declared themselves ready to wait, so as not to throw an excessive financial burden on the government...
...magazines, tailored to every taste and purse. But to scholarly-looking Malcolm S. Forbes, 29, one of Business Biographer B.C. Forbes's five sons, there seemed to be a yawning gap in the market, right at the top. Nobody was putting out a magazine that cost $150 a year. Last week young Forbes had one in the dummy stage, and was taking a full-page ad in the New York Times next week to announce it. Its name was Nation's Heritage, its high-flown purpose to illustrate "the whole American panorama -the resources, the living patterns...
...production, Billy had an idea that "is so simple that it's a cinch to be greeted with screams and derision." The cost of hauling scenery off to the warehouse, then hauling it back again two weeks later and putting it up, says Billy, is close to $4,000. "Why, then, wouldn't it be smart to present two operas a week instead of five or six? ... Why not play Carmen the first half of the week and, let's say, Der Rosenkavalier the second half? And ditto the rest of the operas in next season...
Steady Flying. Of course, Operation Vittles does not have to count its cost ($260,000 daily), as money-losing U.S. commercial airlines do. Still, it may help U.S. commercial operators solve some problems...
...straining the reservoir of U.S. transport planes, it has bolstered the industry's argument that the Government should share the mounting cost of pioneering new transport types. By getting an average eight-hours-per-day out of each of its 192 planes, it has proved what oldtimers like Eddie Rickenbacker have long preached: that the more a plane is used, the better performance it gives. Said Airlift Boss Lieut. General Curtis LeMay last week: "Leave a plane on the ground and it starts deteriorating. But keep it in the air, with regular maintenance, and it thrives on steady...