Word: fee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atomic-age treasure hunters included old hard-rock miners and rank amateurs; three of them were women. A $5 license fee gave them the right to stake 21 claims of almost 52 acres each. All of them dreamed of claiming an area of radioactive pitchblende, and selling out for a fortune. But the man who struck it rich the first week was a canny storekeeper who sold the dreamers $4,000 worth of food and supplies in a single...
...extensive medical attention. Barkley's finances were exhausted, and he made ends meet by taking on a heavy schedule of out-of-town speeches. After a day's work in the Senate he would fly out of town to deliver a lighthearted speech, pick up a fee ranging from $300 to $1,000, and fly home again during the night to visit briefly with the dying Mrs. Barkley, then report again for his daytime work in the Senate. Mrs. Barkley died...
...Gardner Cox himself was hidden away on an island off the Maine coast, busy with portraits and abstractions, recording trials & errors in his journal. His wife and four children were with him, and, when their father could pry them away from the sailboat races, they sat for more portraits. Fee: 60? an hour, with deductions of a cent a minute for wriggling...
...engineers were amazed to discover that there were no meters in Tokyo. The system was for householders to pay a standard sum for a stipulated amount of current. Many householders, as everybody knew, let neighbors tap in, for a profitable though illegal fee. At first, the Americans insisted on meters to stop the malpractice. Japanese officials patiently explained that they could not afford the outlay for meters and meter inspectors. Anyway, they said, inspectors would only make deals with householders and falsify reports, while householders would install meter jumpers and keep on subselling current. "Why go through with all this...
...permanent recording cylinder which takes up to 20 messages, can be wiped clean and used again. The other takes up to 125 messages but requires record changes. Both instruct callers to do such things as "call back this afternoon." Charge per month: $12.50 each, plus a $15 installment fee...