Word: fee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concession will make reservations in any of the Sheraton Hotels at a discount for college students and faculty, retaining a ten per cent fee. Burke estimated that it will pay about ten per cent of its income to the H.S.A...
...after a time (and after Francesco had thoughtfully filled the furnace with damp paper to ensure the production of clouds of steamy smoke that stung diplomatic eyes) the attache let him go it alone. Francesco burned a few of the papers and took the rest (for a small fee) to the Italian military intelligence. "I was certainly not qualified," he writes modestly, "to select the material, all of which seemed to me absolutely incomprehensible." But by choosing a few dispatches at random each day, he proved a great help to Italian strategy. "It was," he declared, "child's play...
...save "many millions" by making all Government bureaus and citizens pay the full cost of Government services that they now get free or at cut prices. Budget Bureau will push for boost in interest on U.S. loans, i.e., Rural Electrification Administration's 2%, wants to put a fee on everything from free Public Health Service tests of vaccines to free U.S. publications, maps, aerial photographs...
...batch of debs for this year, and two now doomed to stay "in" forever), admitted: "Candidly, it will be a financial boon." The only truly crestfallen mourners were the battalion of aristocratic British gentlewomen in reduced circumstances who for years have eked out their meager pensions by sponsoring (for fees running as high as ?1,000) the daughters of better-heeled but less nobly born parents. Said Mrs. Rennie O'Mahony, headmistress of Cygnet House, which accepts a fee to train prospective debutantes in the niceties of curtsies and court behavior: "My little fledglings are quite excited that they...
...popped up last August in Reader's Digest and other magazines. Under the headline ONE BILLION UNFILLED CAVITIES MUST BE WRONG! ran a pseudo-news story by "Noted Journalist" Higgins, plugging Crest toothpaste. Washington-based Maggie Higgins, 37 (married to Major General William E. Hall), took her $500 fee and thought nothing more of it until she got a letter from the Standing Committee of Congressional Press Gallery Correspondents, questioning whether she had violated its rule against "paid publicity or promotion work...