Word: outlay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there's no such item on Vare's expense," he remarked. Pinchot witnesses testified that the Pepper committee assigned an average of 25 "watchers"* and the Vare committee an average of 10 "watchers" to each election district, paying them $10 each, the aggregate outlay for that purpose alone calculated at half a million dollars. It was also charged that there had been "juggling" in the counting of ballots in certain districts...
Sweltering on through check stubs, typewritten balance sheets (suspiciously fresh and pat, thought Investigator Reed), the committee determined that the Pennsylvania primary had cost about $2,000,000 altogether. It was ten times as expensive as the celebrated Newberry outlay in Michigan and exceeded the entire cost of the 1924 Democratic campaign...
...submitted himself to instruction and has led a life free from obvious iniquity. If college is to train boys for service, we must require positive evidence that our candidates are probably good material who will be likely to repay by future service to the community, the large outlay the college makes to educate them...
...still possible to go into one of the early-evening-coffeehouses, sip one's coffee and witness as much of the performance as one has time for, at an outlay roughly equivalent to the cost of a doughnut and coffee at Childs...
...foisted upon the roads themselves, although a minor proportion of it was met with Government funds. Down to the end of 1924, the Class I roads have spent $80,380,350; by the middle of last year the Interstate Commerce Commission had spent $25,597,543, with an estimated outlay of $510,000 more for the last six months of 1924. Up to the beginning of the present year, therefore, a total of $106,487,893 has been spent...