Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discovered that people "had an abiding faith in the soundness of our business economy." Last winter's decline of U.S. business had been interrupted. Manufacturers' orders for May and June had gone up 8%; job layoffs had dropped to their lowest rate since last November; the cost of living also dropped, if only an imperceptible...
...getting anywhere. He was an anxious glad-hander of big men, a hanger-on at the White House, a willing errand-runner and a great fellow for cadging free rides in official trains and limousines. But he lived in a middlebrow house in the suburbs, moaned about the cost of groceries, and looked like a part-time shoe clerk. Most of the capital was inclined to agree when his fellow countryman, Greek-born Promoter William G. Helis, said...
...total cost of the first 95 B-365 ordered, said the Air Force, was more than $6,000,000 apiece, including the addition of jet pods and a new bombing system; the next 75 would be $4,700,000 a copy...
...taught the U.S. how to protect itself. The U.S. Weather Bureau's Hurricane Warning Service uses networks of sensitive seismographs and patrols of hurricane-hunting planes. Strict city building codes and the American Red Cross "hurricane shelter" program have also reduced the toll. Twenty years ago, U.S. hurricanes cost an average of 161 lives for every $10 million property damage...
Paramount planned to shoot a cool $1,000,000 on the promotion, boosting total cost to $5,000,000. And for all anyone knew, it might even be a good movie...