Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Qualification. In London, the buyer of a want-ad pleaded: "Can anyone recommend a cure for smoking for a gentleman being impoverished by the cost of tobacco? No suggestions calling for will power, please...
Neon & Yo-Yos. As they were whirled off across the state in automobiles, they exclaimed favorably at the low cost of eggs in the U.S., the marvels of neon tubing, the high wages earned by U.S. workers and the admirable restraint of a government which did not grab up all the stores and factories in sight...
...example, that the changes will include facilities for smokers. As it is, girls studying in the Fiske Room not only interrupt their own studying when they go out for a cigarette, but also distract non-smokers. If smoking were limited to one room, perhaps in the basement, the cost of effective ventilation would not be extravagant and it would be a considerable convenience to all girls. Another universal complaint, which will probably not be fully corrected in the new scheme, concerns the straight wooden chairs. They might have done very well in the more straight-laced days forty years...
...cost of the trip is possible as the NSA has arranged for tourists to stay in homes of European students instead of hotels...
...time it finished a road trip, the cost of the 1948 production had soared to $50,000 and had put the show irretrievably in the red. This year's "Tomorrow is Manana" will go on the boards March 11 for one-fifth that cost...