Word: costs
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...many saints are there? What are the names of some flowers that make noises while they grow? What is the cost of a U.S. battleship? How many people died in the St. Bartholomew massacre...
Congressman Willis Bradley, who regards himself as the canal expert of the House of Representatives, says the cost of a Colombian water-level (i.e., no locks) canal would be a "fantastic" $7 billion. The ditch would be 95 miles long, cut through a divide which is 932 feet above sea level (49 miles longer, 522 feet higher than a proposed sea-level route across Panama). Excavators would have to move 1,810,000,000 cubic yards of earth, compared to 1,069,000,000 in Panama. Secretary Royall wants fuller information. Besides, if the Colombia survey persuades Panama to change...
...nearly a million World War II veterans have had their dentist bills paid by the U.S. Government. Total cost to the taxpayers: $67 million. The claims of 291,330 veterans for free dentistry are now going through the VA works. Another 200,000 are being treated (treatments may include everything from an amalgam filling to a full plate). In 1947 657,254 treatments were given at a cost of $42,698,627. Of these, 600,400 were by local dentists on a fee basis, the rest by the VA's own staff dentists...
Last season, the house was 97% sold out; almost half a million dollars had poured in from radio, rented concessions (e.g., Sherry's famous bar), and a new recording arrangement with Columbia Records. But even so, said the directors, the Met's rising cost of living had plunged it $220,000 into...
...musicians offered to play a couple of nights without any pay to defray part of the added cost for all of the Met's 600-odd employees. Last week the directors said no. Then the board informed the press that "to increase [the] deficit by meeting further demands . . . would be imprudent to the point of irresponsibility." And with that, the board of directors called off the season. Said Opera Association President Charles M. Spofford: "I guess the unions just didn't take us seriously...