Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like a worried householder, the U.S. Government has often shaken its head and clucked over the cost of its housekeeping. But it has rarely done anything about it. One of the prime reasons is patronage; efficiency and economy would save money, but they would also cost votes. If the U.S. is going to spend more on its neighbors abroad, however, it must economize at home. The U.S. is now getting the first chapters of the most comprehensive guidebook in its history on how to streamline operations and save money...
Earl had all of Huey's lust for power and none of Huey's sure sense of how to use it. Huey had soaked the rich and paid the poor. Earl taxed rich & poor alike. Because of his taxes, cigarettes cost 27? a package, gasoline 29? to 31? a gallon. There was a tax on car parking and even on laundry. Louisiana's per capita income was among the lowest in the nation, but its per capita tax was the highest...
...admiration for Mrs. Marie Baker, who for 18 years had cooked, washed and ironed clothes, and raised a family of four while confined to a wheel chair by infantile paralysis, her Harrisonville, Mo. neighbors chipped in, bought her a new electrically operated wheel chair at a cost...
...eager nose. Released, Freddie scuttles up the pipe in pursuit of the rabbit, and, simultaneously, lays the wiring. In one morning recently, Freddie laid wiring in 60 pipes, the longest of which was 130 ft. By hand, the job would have taken a human electrician a month, cost...
...poor people in a vacant store. Then he began to crusade for a hospital for the poor. He persuaded Mrs. Roosevelt to make a special trip to Phoenix on behalf of the project, and in 1943 the 232-bed St. Monica's Hospital was built, at a cost of more than $500,000. Father McLoughlin served as superintendent. He was also chairman of the Phoenix Housing Authority and secretary of the state Board of Health...