Word: fee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...producing wells and drilling rights on some 2,400,000 acres of oil land. The deal was fabulously profitable for Lawyer Harvie. More than 20 years ago, a bankrupt client gave him the then-worthless rights to the best part of the land in payment of a legal fee. Harvie cannily held them until they yielded a fortune...
...plan will be financed by individual fees ranging up to $7.50 per hour for student consultations. Farnsworth noted that the lack of service in the past was due primarily to the absence of a health fee. During the regular school year student must pay a flat $37.50 charge regardless of the number of times they seek consultations...
Once formally "adopted" by the local party, a candidate is by law required to hire a campaign agent who, for a set fee of $210, assumes responsibility for running the campaign, lining up volunteer workers, and keeping a stern eye on every ha'penny...
...stringent about how much can be spent, and how. The 630 constituencies (five more than last time because of population changes) average about 50,000 registered voters. A candidate in an average rural constituency may spend only $2,450, an urban candidate about $2,150. The agent's fee comes out of this; so do all printing costs (a campaign address, or opening statement, must be printed, enveloped and sent to every voter), headquarters' rent and similar expenses. The candidate himself may spend an additional $280 for expenses-three or four weeks' worth of transportation, meals, hotel...
...Advertising Agencies and several other trade associations. They have been under investigation since last year for fixing commissions on ad rates in interstate commerce. Newspaper and magazine trade associations have violated the Sherman Antitrust Act, charged Brownell, by fixing 15% of the price of an ad as the standard fee for agencies for placing an ad. Agencies must all charge the 15% commission, said he, cannot sell their services for less. Furthermore, ad agencies have difficulty buying space in publications unless they are "recognized" and placed on a special list by the trade associations. Said Brownell: "The point is whether...