Word: fee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third place, uniform rents would lessen the administrative burdens of the present system, which has a scale of 27 different rents. Except for room charges, University bills--including tuition, board, and health fee--are the same for all College students...
Telegraphed Gifts. More than 2,000 U.S. drugstores have signed up with Gifts By Wire, Inc. of Delray Beach, Fla. in a new national gift-sending service. Customers pick gifts from a catalogue at retail prices (range $3 to $28.50), pay a telegraph fee and 50? service charge to have the gift wrapped and delivered to the recipient in another city...
Business Machines. Among the new office gadgets displayed in Manhattan's Coliseum: Philco's Transac 52000, the first commercial all-transistor computer (rental fee: $28,000 to $40,000); Thomas Collators Inc.'s completely automatic rotary drum collating machine, which sorts and staples, detects misses or doubles, piles and packs up to 25,000 sheets of paper an hour (price: $9,000); Perk-ette's coffee machine, which spurts a fresh brew at pre-set intervals, thus always has coffee fresh at coffee-break time (installed free on $5-a-day guarantee); Coffee Vending Service...
...biggest U.S. bank (No. 1, Bank of America), for use in New York City retail stores. Card holders will be charged nothing if they pay all bills each month, but can delay payments up to five months for charge of 1% of unpaid balance. Retailers will pay 6% service fee to bank...
...Harvard Cooperative Society may institute a single, three-dollar deposit payment as membership fee instead of the present yearly one-dollar charge. This deposit may be reclaimed any time a person wishes to resign from the society...