Word: fee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebuilt in the old style-a quiet place of little yellow-and-green medieval houses, where vehicular traffic and "noisy trades" are prohibited, and where the four gates are locked at 10 p.m. nightly, as they have been since 1521. Anyone who stays out too late must pay a fee...
Venice, the lagoon city that once "held the gorgeous East in fee," is now down to glass blowing, lacemaking, and putting up tourists. As its ancient islands and handsome buildings sink ever deeper into the waters of the lagoon, Venetians and their businesses have been migrating to the booming towns of Mestre and Porto Marghera on the mainland near by, while the population of Venice itself has dwindled to about the same number of citizens (170,000) as it held in 1500. To halt their city's decline, Venetian "progressives" propose to build a "little Manhattan" on an artificial...
...real life, TV's Wyatt Earp was a hardheaded businessman, less interested in law and order than he was in the fast buck. He reorganized the red-light district while he was in Dodge City, charged a fat fee for protection, and collected besides a sizable percentage of every fine he levied. He rarely fired a shot, made his reputation pistol-whipping drunken waddies...
...first move in this direction was to increase the cost from ten dollars flat fee for an unlimited number of tests to five dollars registration fee and eight dollars for each test. The new rate takes effect this year, but the tests already cost between thirty and fifty dollars apiece to administer and grade...
Banks have found the credit card a sure-fire way to drum up credit business (instead of taking a one-shot loan, the cardholder becomes a permanent credit customer). In the typical system used by Chase Manhattan Bank, the stores pay a fee of 6% or less on charge-card business, depending on volume. Cardholders get the service free if they pay their monthly bills on time; or they can pay in five monthly installments, with a 1% monthly charge on the unpaid balance...