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Word: costs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...class is selecting an investigating committee which will also act as a tentative staff for the yearbook. This committee will probe the cost of the yearbook and find out how much financial support the class can obtain from the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Okays Yearbook, but Probe Can Still End Annual | 5/17/1949 | See Source »

...Seek Cost Slash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Girls Must Do More Manual Labor Next Year | 5/17/1949 | See Source »

With competition in the U.S. television industry growing hotter by the day, manufacturers were cudgeling their brains for new ways to trim costs and prices. In Chicago, Admiral Corp.'s quick-stepping President Ross Siragusa thought he knew a good way to do it. On the big, fancy-looking console jobs, about one-third of the cost went into furniture. Why not start cutting there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gargantua's Baby | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

This week Dom was turning out 225 cabinets a day at one-half to one-third the cost of wooden ones. In them Brother Ross was installing 10-inch screen television sets. The price: $249.95, about $50 cheaper than the closest competitive model. Siragusa raised Admiral's 1949 production goal from 400,000 units to 500,000, planned to spend $1,000,000 this month alone in advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gargantua's Baby | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...happen." When Archer gets in the way of a murderous mob, his death is a kind of anguished moral suicide. Author Shaplen as much as tells the readers: hate and violence anywhere are the concern of all decent men; they can be observed with indifference only at the cost of moral health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guilt-Edged Confusion | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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