Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gold-leafed piano (cost: $15,000) that once tinkled in the high-type bagnio run by the Everleigh sisters in Chicago (TIME, Sept. 27), was bid in for $95 by their biographer, Charles Washburn, at a Manhattan auction...
...responsible if the wheat subsequently rotted; it would be graded according to its original condition. Once the wheat was stored, the farmer could draw the other 25% of his loan. The CCC will also build 50 million bushels of storage space of its own, lend farmers 85% of the cost of building their own storage facilities and, if necessary, store wheat in airplane hangars, Army igloos and other Government-owned property. Brannan even suggested emergency storage space for about 15 million bushels in the holds of the Government's "mothball fleet" of Liberty ships...
...this, plus the movies, takes as big an investment as a regular cinemansion; one 2,000-car ozoner near Cincinnati cost $750,000. But the payoff is heavy and swift. Example: the atmosphere under artificial moonglow whets appetites so keenly that popcorn, hotdogs and hamburgers sell about four times as well at ozoners as in theaters. Some drive-ins can pay all expenses with the receipts from munching...
...Secretariat alone would cost some $21 million to construct. For its money, U.N. would doubtless get an efficient workshop. Would the glass & marble shell also look monumental enough for the purpose? Argued the FORUM: "In Washington, a hundred years ago, monumentality was columns. On the East River, now, it is construed as serenely simple geometry, akin to the pyramids...
Very few objections can be raised to the project. Because it would be a toll highway, the 60 to 75 million dollar cost would be assumed by the users. And inasmuch as most of the cross-state travelers will come from other states, the pike would cost Bay Staters almost nothing. When the tolls have paid off the bonds, the road would become completely free...