Word: fee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...force was passed ... 20 odd years ago." He continued that at that time the rangers had "just put their heads into a noose" when they concluded with Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, then Chief Forester, an agreement whereby the users of the range pledged themselves to pay "a fee sufficient to bear the cost of administration." "Today," he added, "the fee is three times that cost . . . and autocratically administered." He declared that the rangers want a grazing fee based on an acreage not a per-head basis; and a definite standing before the law. "Governor Pinchot," he declared, "is an idealist...
...Yellowstone. They found it stocked with shifty-eyed witnesses intent on the scalp of National Park Superintendent, Colonel H. M. Albright. A long day was spent in listening to stories told to his discredit. He was responsible, he heard, for an exhorbitant motorcar entrance fee of $7.50. Buffalo had died during the filming of The Thundering Herd. Favoritism had been shown to the neighboring Silver Tip Ranch owned by Thomas Cochran (Morgan Partner). Equipment had been loaned to utility companies. There was too much banqueting of Eastern dudes at government expense...
...dodderer from whose veins the tingle of life has ebbed? A young slip of a girl, anaemic, wan, ghosty-eyed? Frederick George Lee bares his flesh, lets his stout heart pump good red blood into the sufferer's frame and for his office receives a goodly fee. In the past three years he has done that 24 times...
...There were refreshments in the basement and cinemas on the roof and a trick pony which told fortunes with stamping hoof and twitching ear-all for a small admission fee that the public gladly paid...
...through the crowd of 8,000-odd witnesses and entered an uptown church in Manhattan, last week, he would have found refreshments in the basement and cinemas on the roof and a trick pony which told fortunes with stamping hoof and twitching ear-all for a small admission fee that the public gladly paid. Such were the festivities that followed, last week, the breaking of the ground for the $4,000,000 Broadway Temple, organized by one Dr, Christian F. Reisner, who raised the money. The assembly marched to the uptown church where, after a prayer by a Baptist minister...