Word: fee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advisory council of citizens to survey the American economy, determine how much could be drained from it for transfusions to the world's economy without impairing U.S. health. But many a Congressman showed little sympathy for expanding U.S. ventures in internationalism. House-Senate conferees agreed on an import fee on wool which, if it became law, might wreck Administration efforts at Geneva for freer world trade (TIME, June 2). Marshall and Under Secretary Will Clayton had to rush before a House committee to plead for extension of the Maritime Commission's power to operate the tankers and charter...
...solar, lunar, terrestrial radiant, and gravitational influences." Appropriately colored lights, said Inventor Dinshah P. Ghadiali, are wonderfully effective against diabetes, cancer, tuberculosis, appendicitis, syphilis and hundreds of lesser ills. The lamp was not for sale; to be treated, a patient had to join Ghadiali's "institute" at a fee...
...well-dressed citizens hungrily peeked into garbage cans in front of Allied homes. There were few pets left in the city-an old household trick, now revived, was to soak cats in skimmed milk diluted with water for eight hours, to make them tender enough to eat. The current fee for prostitutes was two slices of bread. In Essen, where the official daily ration is 1.550 calories a day, some people were getting only 887-which meant three slices of bread baked with mixed cornmeal and wheat flour and two teaspoonfuls of sugar...
Undergraduates may draw books from PBH shelves, Pugliese stated, by paying a 25 cent fee for one term, and a "two-bit deposit...
...fee provision is regarded as the only section of a so-called workers' "bill of rights" in the House measure which the Senate group may accept. Senators contended that several other provisions are covered in other sections of their bill...