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This rule will put a premium on efficiency, let low-cost operators get a better break than inefficient, marginal ones. But Di Salle warned that OPS will not allow any new increases in costs (e.g., cost-of-living wage increases) to be added automatically to prices...
...Provide a low-cost inland route for shipment of iron ore to Midwest steel mills from the rich new deposits being developed in Labrador...
...Americans, even such a massive undertaking as that is no real obstacle. The real block to the seaway, through 50 years of weary debate since it was first proposed, has been the anti-seaway lobby. Its members include railroads fearful of losing traffic, coal and power companies fearful of low-cost competition, seaports from Boston to Galveston that would lose some shipping. The coalition has managed to frustrate the efforts of every U.S. President since Wilson and every New York governor since Al Smith to push the seaway through Congress...
Right now, war movies are in demand, and studies are happy to meet the demand by producing low-cost, easily-slapped-together films. According to one Boston film distributor, "for awhile the industry couldn't make them fast enough; we had to reissue or reprint old films. When the public wants war movies, they're willing to take almost anything. You can't spend too much time making them; you have to satisfy the market immediately...
...hours now wasted piecing together special assemblies. ¶ Ceiling heights and sill heights could be further standardized so that lumber and wallboard producers could supply materials precut to fit. ¶ Millions of pounds of copper wiring, steel pipe and cement are wasted by excessive street widths imposed on most low-cost developments...