Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foreign Affairs Committee several arguments have been raised against this aid. First of all there is the question of cost to this country, which is already committed to the European Recovery Plan, and to arms aid to Atlantic Pact countries, not to speak of heavy military expenditures at home. Although the Administration expects private capital to provide most of the funds in future years, it admits that the government must do the initial financing, and continue to give some help thereafter for as long as the program is necessary...
Hilton thought he had picked up a bargain. For a mere $3,000,000, Hilton Hotels Corp. and half a dozen outside associates will acquire 70% of the common stock in a building which cost $26 million to build and furnish in 1931. (He also acquired $5,700,000 in bonded debt...
...hired Irving Fagan as editor and general manager. Wiry, able Irv Fagan, a 20-year veteran of the newspaper business (the Philadelphia Record), heads a Washington staff of seven, a national staff of 15 part-time correspondents. The L.P.A.'s top byliner: Old Washington Hand Nathan Robertson (PM). Cost of the service: $2 to $15 a week...
Before the year is out, almost every man, woman & child in the U.S. will have had at least one cold. The cost (in doctors' fees, drugs and lost wages) will top $1 billion. In a progress report on man's fight against the common cold, the current Journal of the American Medical Association glumly reports: no progress...
...three plan to call their new magazine either "The Moon," or "The Lyre and Lute." "It will cost about 15 cents and resemble Punch a great deal," said Wiggin last night. "We aim to get away from the esoteric and the arty," he summarized...