Word: fees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shortage, Kelly-Springfield, known in Cumberland as "The Kelly," was dawdling along under a, skeleton staff 18 months ago. Then The Kelly leased most of its 1,000,000 sq. ft. of plant to the War Department, contracted to turn out small-arms ammunition on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis. Shrewd, handsome Kelly President Edmund Sidney Burke handled the conversion to war production. He stored some of the tire-making machinery in plant buildings, to be handy for the reconversion job which would come some day-no one expected it so soon. Kelly's payroll skyrocketed under...
Hired, for a fancy $100,000 fee, was New York's famed Park Commissioner Robert Moses, who will take a staff to Portland, make a 60-day survey, turn in recommendations for postwar public works. Best estimate is that war's end will throw 90,000 Portlanders out of work...
...When Lukas arrived in the U.S. with his bride (small, blonde Gisella Benes, to whom he is still married), he was required to post a $500 bond. It was not until five years later that he collected his bond from the Government. Lukas thought the $500 was an admission fee...
...citizens long inured to political stinks, the Cox Committee's investigation of the Federal Communications Commission was becoming slightly nauseous last week. When Congress set up the committee to review the functions of FCC, backbiting Gene ("Goober") Cox-then (and still) charged by FCC with accepting an illegal fee from a Georgia broadcasting station-wangled himself the chairmanship. At the first public hearing Chairman Cox promised "an impartial and wholly constructive" investigation...
...patients flatly refused to use them. Bay Minettens have yielded to some of the doctor's other whims: instead of waiting until their babies are ready to arrive, most mothers now call him in advance and submit to a full course of prenatal care (the doctor's fee, including delivery: $35, lately raised from $25). But they still insist on having their babies at home in billowy feather beds, where the doctor, swearing softly, makes sutures as best...