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One indication of the merits of the new management is found in the fact that during the period 1951-1956, while total annual mileage put on the vehicles increased 35%, the total maintenance cost increased only 11%.
This resulted in an improved appearance, but was followed by an increase in printing cost that necessitated the institution of major economies to keep within the total of allocated funds.
The Secretary of State shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the total cost of adjudication, not borne by the claimants, attributable to the Yugoslav Claims Agreement of 1948.
It would add about $500 to the total cost of the home.
Our building time was slightly over 400 hours -- but the total cost for the hull with Fiberglas bottom, sink, head and hardware was under $800.
Ritter, the builder, is convinced that the total cost of all the heating systems plus the oil distribution system is no greater than would be gas heating systems in the houses plus their lines and meters.
`` So from raw materials to finished erection the costs of materials handling ( most of it inefficient ) add up to one-fourth of the total construction cost of housing ''.
The total cost of the five-year program was $297 million.
We assume that average total unit cost in the relevant region of operation is constant with respect to quantity produced ( the average cost curve is horizontal, and therefore is identical with the marginal cost curve ), and is the same for every firm ( and therefore for the industry ).
Nevertheless, because the Cost Section has felt impelled to make some kind of a distribution of total costs, it has apportioned this residue, which it sometimes calls `` burden '', among the units of carload traffic on a basis ( partly ton, partly ton-mile ) which is concededly quite arbitrary from the standpoint of cost determination.
As already noted in an earlier paragraph, the more familiar cost analyses of utility enterprises or utility systems divide the total costs among a number of major classes of service, such as residential, commercial, industrial power, street lighting, etc..
In the first subtype, the analyst ( following the practice of railroad analysis in this particular respect ) distributes both total operating costs and total annual capital costs ( including an allowance for `` cost of capital '' or `` fair rate of return '' ) among the different classes and units of service.
Here, an apportionment, say, of $5,000,000 of the total costs to residential service as a class would include an allowance of perhaps 6 per cent as the cost of whatever capital is deemed to have been devoted to the service of the residential consumers.
Since the company under review is supplying what we are here regarding as only one kind of service, we might suppose that the problem of total cost apportionment would be very simple ; ;
indeed, that it would be limited to a finding of the total annual operating and capital costs of the business, followed by a calculation of this total in terms of annual cost per kilowatt-hour of consumption.
It is usually necessary to increase the total sample size to achieve equivalent precision in the estimators, but cost savings may make that feasible.
It will take at least three years to launch the satellite, with the total cost ranging between 200 to 300 million, major international countries have shown interest in sharing the costs with the Afghan government.
With this issue alone, an estimated construction cost saving for a total of 58 office floors, would be around HK $ 30 million.
In total, it is estimated that everything cost 1. 5 million castilian pesos.
The choice of insecticide has little impact on the total cost of a round of spraying, since product costs are only a fraction of campaign costs.

total and bridge
Opened in 1957, the bridge ( familiarly known as " Big Mac " and " Mighty Mac ") is the third longest in total suspension in the world and the longest suspension bridge between anchorages in the Western hemisphere.
( That bridge has a longer total suspension but is a double bridge with an anchorage in the middle.
For more than a thousand years, it is the longest arch bridge in the world to have been built, in terms of both total and span length.
Another, perhaps greater threat, was seen in those Jewish groups that attempted to bridge the gap between the religious and secular worlds, since this was perceived as possibly more alluring to the youths of the community, including those who could not conceive of a total break from their Jewish upbringing.
: The program to be presented to this assembly-for general and complete disarmament under effective international control-moves to bridge the gap between those who insist on a gradual approach and those who talk only of the final and total achievement.
There is the largest bridge across the river, the Vasco da Gama Bridge, which with a total length of is the longest bridge in Europe.
The bridge has two river piers and is made of three main sections of, and ( North to South ) with a total structure length of ; the aluminium deck is wide.
The total evacuation triggered by a bomb hoax on September 12, 2001 ( the day after the September 11 attacks destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City ) showed that the bridge would not be useful if both towers need to be emptied simultaneously, as the capacity of the staircases was insufficient for such an event.
In 1893-94 the first bridge to cross the Current River was built at Van Buren at a total cost of $ 4, 500. 00.
In 1909 a structural steel bridge was built across the Current River at a total cost of about $ 9, 000. 00.
The Akashi-Kaikyo bridge has a total of 1, 737 illumination lights: 1, 084 for the main cables, 116 for the main towers, 405 for the girders and 132 for the anchorages.
The total cost is estimated at 500 billion yen, and is expected to be repaid by charging drivers a toll to cross the bridge.
Mott, Hay and Anderson and Freeman Fox and Partners carried out the design work and Sir William Arrol & Co. constructed the bridge at a cost of £ 11. 5 million, while the total cost of the project including road connections and realignments was £ 19. 5 million.
At a total length of, it was the longest suspension bridge span outside the United States and the fourth-longest span in the world at the time of its construction.
Whereas the Engineer EOD training period although shorter in total is spread over a number of years and interspersed with operational experience, RE personnel may be posted to core trades such as carpentry or bridge building within their time as engineers.
A total of 70 passengers, 4 crew, and 4 motorists on the bridge were killed.
With a centre span of and a total length of, the Humber Bridge was the longest single-span suspension bridge in the world for 16 years.
Most of the battalion and various other supporting units — including two jeeps of Goughs squadron, four 6-pounder anti-tank guns, Brigade HQ ( but without Lathbury ), and Royal Engineers ( in total numbering about 740 men )— moved into Arnhem centre as night fell and owing to the oversight in German orders were able to secure the undefended northern end of the road bridge.
* Centennial Bridge: a six-lane vehicular bridge that crosses the Panama Canal with a total length of 1. 05 km ( 3, 451 ft ).
* Oresund Bridge, a combined two-track rail and four-lane road bridge with a main span of 490 metres and a total length of 7. 85 km, crossing the Öresund between Malmö, Sweden and the Danish Capital Region.
* Rio-Antirio bridge with a total length of 2 880 m and four towers, this is the bridge with the second longest cable-stayed suspended deck ( 2 258 m long ) in the world, spanning the Gulf of Corinth near Patras, Greece.

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