Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amount. Harry Truman had asked for virtually a free hand to allocate arms and money wherever and whenever he thought they were needed, on whatever terms he chose. Administration spokesmen admitted that they could not estimate accurately how long the program might run, or how much it would ultimately cost...
Hawaii's 540,000 residents were getting enough to eat, thanks to relief ships which the strikers agreed to let through (and got paid regular rates for unloading). But the strike already had deepened Hawaii's postwar economic recession; it had cost the islands $22,560,000 in lost wages and business income, according to an employers' estimate. Some 150 firms had cut their employees' wages from 5% to 50%. Raw sugar worth $44 million was piling up in warehouses, tennis courts, gyms, stables and hangars...
...official committee's platform. Toasts were drunk in mead, a drink brewed from honey. Hengest & Horsa used to love mead, but 1949's perspiring Vikings gave the impression that they would rather have had some cool beer. The Danes plan to sell the Hugin (it cost $12,000) and go back to Denmark on the oarless Danish patrol vessel Thetis.* They have already arranged to sell their beards, for $1,000, to a Danish manufacturer of razor blades...
...Manhattan this week Philco Corp. came out with its version of the built-in aerial. It would work, said Philco engineers, in about 80% of present-day receiving locations. Just in case the saving on installation costs was not enough, Philco at the same time cut prices sharply. Sample result: last year a consolette with a 72-sq.-in. picture cost $439.50 plus installation fee; this year a full console with a 97-sq.-in. picture cost...
...rebel at heart but lacking moral courage . . . He is a hired Hessian of the type writer ... I tell you Runyon has subtlety but it is the considered opinion of this reviewer that it is a great pity the guy did not remain a rebel out & out, even at the cost of a good position at the feed trough...