Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scorning the trade, studied to become teachers, lawyers and doctors. I.L.G.W.U. locals are strong in Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and Philadelphia. In fact, the only major holdout is the Donnelly Garment Co. in Kansas City, against which the union has vainly hurled hordes of organizers for years, at a cost...
...Government had in one year poured a whopping $64 million into the pockets of Aroostook potato men, to buy up the surplus from Maine's biggest cash crop. Some of the takes were eye-popping examples of the nation's weirdest experiment in farm pharmacy (total U.S. cost last year: $225 million). At least two Aroostook potato shippers collected Government checks for around $500,000; a dozen or so got more than $150,000 each; at least 31 over $100,000 apiece. In all Maine, 4,503 farmers averaged $15,000 apiece in Government bounty, Washington Post Newsman...
Those who didn't sell their crops to the Government benefited by the artificially inflated price in retail markets. One potato farmer salted away $13,160 from a 30-acre farm which cost him only $3,000 ten years ago. Another made $50,000 in four years off his 144 acres. Farm laborers were doing almost as well: up to $25 a day for following the digging machines; $15 to $25 a day for planting...
...Santiago last week, a student protest against a 14% hike in bus fares turned into ugly rioting over the cost of living. The rioters even tried to rush La Moneda, the presidential palace, but tear gas held them off until palace guards could slam shut the great wooden doors...
...Rockies bar Alberta oil from British Columbia; rail rates are too high, and the demand for oil does not justify the high cost of building a pipeline across the mountains. Similarly, the high cost of transport tends to bar Alberta oil from the Ontario and Quebec industrial areas, which are supplied by pipelines from the U.S. and tankers from the Caribbean and the Middle East. Thus the fields' natural market is the oil-hungry U.S. Midwest, which can be reached easily from Alberta...