Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much would it all cost? Twenty billion, the beaten real-estate lobby had moaned, only to be called a liar by the President. Not over $10 billion, said Harry Truman. Who was right no one yet knew...
...Lustron had run into more kinks in its distribution setup. The house cost $10,000 to $1 1,000 when erected, v. the $7,000 Strandlund had originally predicted. Lustron was turning out more houses than its dealers could handle and production, instead of hitting 100 a day, has now been cut back to 20 houses...
...billion barrels in Mexico. Furthermore, Ball saw the $200 million loan sought by Mexico as just a starter. Since Mexico had drilled an average of 35 wells annually in the last ten years, and "it might take 10,000 or more" to develop the fields fully, the eventual cost might run from $2 to $4 billion. The U.S. "cannot afford" to lend that much money, especially since chances are slim that Mexico's monopoly could...
...half of what the commission thought they should be. ¶The Long Island owns a freight yard near Manhattan, but leases it to the Pennsy, which pays it a piddling $13,000 a year. This forces the subsidiary to deadhead its own cars to less accessible yards, at a cost last year of about...
...result (at a cost of under $500,000) is not only a first-class social document, but also a profoundly moving film. Dr. Carter (Mel Ferrer) and his wife (Beatrice Pearson) are forced into passing as whites so that he can practice his profession. But he keeps clandestine contact with his Negro colleagues, names his son (Richard Hylton) after a famous Negro doctor. Out of these contacts emerge some fresh insight into Negro viewpoints, and into the intricate network of etiquette and anguish separating those who can "pass" from those who cannot...