Word: price
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...making Chicago beautiful. To widen streets and boulevards, they had to buy land. To buy land they had to have it appraised. Instead of paying fixed salaries to the appraisers, they had the City Council vote to pay the appraisers on a percentage basis. Thus, the higher the price fixed by the appraiser on a site, the higher the appraiser's fee. The appraisers, in turn, paid fat sums to the fund with which Thompsonism tried to keep itself in office...
...designed the first open coil dynamo, following this with an arc lamp, the "ring clutch," in which the carbon is clutched by a ring attached to an armature which automatically keeps the light steady. This not only solved a long standing difficulty but brought the price to street level. Three years later (1879) the Public Square in Cleveland glowed under the first public arc lights...
Admission to cinema entertainment in the U. S. varies between $3.30 and lof4 depending on the age of the film and the amount of rococo in the theatre. Whatever the price, those who pay may well feel the need of a chart...
Steel makers, led by Eugene Gifford Grace, president of Bethlehem, have seen in this recovery a potential threat to U. S. industry. By consolidation, they may hope to eliminate costs of maintaining separate foreign offices, prevent competitive price-cutting for European business...
...sold two tabloids, New York Daily Mirror and Boston Advertiser, to Alexander Pollock Moore, U. S. Ambassador to Peru, for a price which was said to be dirt cheap. (It was even hinted that this was a "dummy" sale and that Hearst privately remains the financial angel of the two tabloids...