Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...permit the President to send "military assistance" anywhere overseas. Such authority to act without reference back to Congress should be so general that arms (but not men) could be sent to any country "with international interests similar to those of the U.S." The best guess of what it would cost was $1 billion this year, billions more later...
...Detroit housing officials ruled that residents of its low-cost housing projects could not own television sets. The tenants instead should be saving their money towards buying their own homes, explained Housing Director James H. Inglis...
...their prices to a new pattern of shrinking markets in many lines; labor would have to recognize that decreasing employment would bring a sort of buyers' market there also. It might have to reconsider "fourth round" wage demands in the light of benefits from a drop in the cost of living. By reasonableness on both sides, there was the prospect and the possibility that the great American boom could be leveled off on a high plateau, broad enough to bear the weight of the burdens that the U.S. had assumed during 1948. Ahead lay the new frontiers which...
Having repudiated the two totalitarian extremes, Dos Passos faced the tough job of making the next novel in his series a defense of his liberal values. Next week, after delays caused by Dos Passos' war reporting and a highway accident which took his wife's life and cost him an eye, that novel will come out. The Grand Design contains the expected defense of liberalism, but it speaks in a worried, hesitant, uncertain voice in which there is little of the power of U.S.A...
...Total cost of construction is estimated to reach $2,500,000. The necessary endowment will be over...