Word: fee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration's announced program to liberalize U.S. trade policies. To refuse it would be to jeopardize Republican votes in the thinly populated western sheep-raising states, and to aggravate CCC's surplus problems. And if he succumbed to pressure from wool growers to increase the fee from 7? to 12? or 15?, other industries might ask for more protection...
...portrait of the Woolseys had scores of contemporary U.S. counterparts. Born in Saxony, Berczy adventured through Europe, brought a group of German settlers to New York State and then led them on into Canada. With the quietude of age, he turned to architecture and workmanlike portraiture. He charged a fee for each of the Woolseys in the picture, but in a note on the back of the canvas, Berczy notes that its real hero, the dog, "was added without cost...
...amount of trouble to collect case histories from a region, a cultural group, an occupational class or a religious sect which may not be adequately represented in his samples. Stray individuals figure less and less in his work. Kinsey commonly accepts an invitation to address (without fee) an organization such as a conference of Y.W.C.A. secretaries: After he has described the nature and purpose of his study, he calls for volunteers to sign up for interviews. He often gets a response as high as 80% even from a prim, spinsterish group...
...implication that the Democratic National Committee had made a direct profit out of Secretary Snyder's intervention. Snyder said last week that he had merely wanted to "speed up" a settlement one way or the other, and "never suspected" that $30,000 of Mayock's fee would go to the party coffers. But Mayock said that his contact with Snyder was "political." And a former BIR official testified that in sending down the special ruling, General Counsel Charles Oliphant (a headliner in Tax Scandals of 1951-52) wrote on the document: "This approval applies only in this case...
Though the school does not actually open until fall (full year's fee: $1,550), the students and counselors have already done a good deal more than a term's work. They have planted a flourishing acre and a half garden and started storing up its vegetables in a neighbor's home freezer. They have rebuilt the two chicken houses, converting one into a girls' dormitory and the other into a red-curtained privy...