Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Turku (Finland), the Finnish Bible Society happily prepared to sell ten tons of coffee, a gift from the American Bible Society. Admitted free of duty by the Finnish Government and sold on the free market, the coffee would bring about twelve times the $4,500 it had cost in the U.S.-and provide the cash to buy a new Bible House to replace the one Russia destroyed in World...
...eliminating special "blooming" mills (where steel is rolled in clothes-wringer-like machines) and the conveyer tables to feed them, continuous casting will make a drastic cut in the cost of every ton of steel produced. Eventually, it may also decentralize the industry, giving each region its own steel mills, for the machines are relatively cheap to build, and easy to house...
...exception was Republic Steel Corp.'s Tom M. Girdler. In 1938, to find out whether Adirondack ore was rich enough to warrant its cost, he leased the Mineville and Port Henry properties from the Witherbee Sherman Corp. Girdler soon bought up another ancient mine and 115,000 acres in the mineral-rich Chateaugay district, dug shafts, built mills and narrow-gauge railroads. The Government helped him get labor. During the war it financed the building of his dormitory villages with churches, hospitals and a swimming pool. Last week Republic had an Adirondack working force of 1,550, and Girdler...
...latest safety devices (radar, automatic steering controls, radios on life boats). The ships will be built at Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Quincy, Mass, yards. Under a stepped-up program of shipbuilding subsidies (TIME, Aug. 2), the Government will pay $20 million of the $46,830,000 construction cost...
...Unilever's products had shucked their plain-paper wrappings of World War II. Almost always, a designer has to compromise his ideas with the maker's notions of indispensable, brand-identifying trimmings. For Unilever, French-born Raymond Loewy could shoot the works. His terms, as usual, were cost (for the man-hours and materials of his 200-man office, $100,000-a-month payroll) plus an unrevealed annual retainer. On past jobs, the retainer has run from...