Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rubble & Risk. A frantic assault by healing antibodies began immediately. To save the tunnel-which had cost $50 million, 14 lives* and seven years' labor-firemen, tunnel workers, policemen and rescue squads fought into the tube at the height of the 4,000-degree fire. Dozens collapsed from smoke and choking gases...
...During three days of deliberation, they announced plans to buy the small, interdenominational Protestant Voice (circ. 29,500), and turn it into a weekly newspaper. The new paper will have a 30-man board of directors, selected from 300 representatives of denominations, religious agencies and geographical areas. It will cost an estimated $2,000,000, though publication will start after $650,000 is in the kitty. Main offices will probably be in New York City, where its backers hope by next January to bring out a "national paper that looks like a newspaper and reads like...
...train swung 188 miles up the Mississippi to the sleepy, picturesque town of Louisiana, Mo. There the passengers witnessed the dedication of two plants, developed by the Bureau of Mines at a cost of $15 million, to convert coal into oil. This was the biggest step the U.S. had yet taken to create a synthetic oil industry against the possibility of war or of exhaustion of petroleum reserves...
...used union stage hands in its Rindge production, but the cost would have been prohibitive without Monty Woolley in the cast to draw large audiences...
...Director of University Libraries has estimated the cost of keeping Lamont open all summer at $10,000--most of which would go for air-conditioning--and the University feels that the money could be better spent elsewhere. This may very well be so, but there is no real excuse for treating the summer students as poor relations and denying them the regular College facilities. About 1500 undergraduates are expected to attend the summer school, and this number surely justifies some expenditure for their comfort and convenience...