Word: fee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days later, State Insurance Commissioner Frank Sullivan provided the answer. Wes Roberts, who had represented the A.O.U.W. in the transaction, got the $11,000 as his fee. Reporters and legislators promptly raised some eyebrows and some questions. If Roberts had promoted the sale of the building, which had to be paid for by the legislature, wasn't he lobbying? He hadn't registered, as lobbyists must under Kansas law. Then an even more basic question arose. There was a 1927 letter signed by the state business manager indicating that the state expected to get the building for nothing...
Educated Customers. The Webbers are always looking for new ways to educate customers to new needs-which Hudson's can supply. A staff of 48 interior decorators helps shoppers pick furnishings and (for a modest fee) makes home calls to advise on such things as wallpaper and floor plans for furniture. To lure shoppers off the ground floor, the Webbers spotted four restaurants through the store, where 8,900 customers are served daily...
...American Federation of Musicians wants a $170 initiation fee and $25 per month before it will obtain bookings for the virtuoso. And Tikonoff, once a student at the Paris Conservatory of Music, does not have the money to join the union...
...Because of the greater risk, Phillips will have to pay the Government only 25? an acre (v. the standard 50?-an-acre rental fee for Government lands in the U.S.) plus a 5% royalty on any oil it produces in the first ten years. After that the royalty goes up to 12½%, the standard royalty on domestic oil, but the U.S. can take payment in cash or kind...
...stainless ink. Where installed DiGiTab has frightened forgers away. In the past five months, Milwaukee's Krambo Stores cashed 108,000 good checks totaling more than $5,000,000. It did get stuck for $250 worth, all cashed by the same forger, but DiGiTab helped nab him. Rental fee: $100 a year