Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than anyone had suspected. It was a wonder that Harry Truman, sitting in his second-story bathtub, hadn't plunged down to the basement. A complete White House repair job would require ripping out all interior walls and beams, replacing everything up to the outer shell. The cost would be about $7,000,000 (just seven times the original estimate). Harry Truman wondered if Senator Dennis Chavez would do what he could about it in the Committee on Public Works. Said Harry Truman: "The White House is a mess...
Between chores, newsmen called their families to break the bad news. Some began dialing other papers for jobs. But for many of the editorial crew of 101 it would be a tough winter; other Manhattan newspapers were in a cost-cutting mood...
...Rich." By last week, however, a good many Jamaicans had concluded that infallibility is a big word. Busta had promised more jobs, better prices, and increased incentives for farm production. Instead, while the cost-of-living index zoomed (up 300% since 1939), wages lagged. Last week some 150,000 Jamaicans (total population: 1,320,000) were unemployed, and many poor families had taken to living in old automobile bodies...
Unkept Promises. In that five-minute meeting, the life flickered out of a newspaper that had been a sometimes noble, often confused experiment. In nine years, it had cost Chicago's wealthy, well-intentioned Marshall Field some $7,000,000. He had hoped for a change when Crum & Barnes took over last spring (TIME, May 10). They had big plans, high hopes and promises of plenty of money from new investors. The promises were not kept. Field had had to pump in another $600,000 and Joe Barnes had to neglect his editing to hunt more money...
...what must it have cost the angels...