Word: fees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...production: 1) It has gone directly into the munitions business, building and staffing its own arsenals. 2) It has built "shadow plants"-new war plants in the shadow of existing private plants. The British Treasury supplies the money and the private company supplies the management for a small fee. 3) For new war-order plants that can be readily converted to peacetime use after the war, the Government finances the plant itself, the businessman furnishes the machinery and working capital. He earns about 5% on his investment. 4) Plenty of Government orders are let on straight contracts to existing companies...
...under the Limitations of Supplies Order, for exceeding its sales quota of perfume, hosiery, fancy goods. >The London, the Associated and the Provincial Brokers' Stock Exchanges took voluntary action to reduce overhead. The kickback which banks and clerks had been getting from brokers as a finder's fee for new customers was cut from 50 to 33⅔% the broker's commission. In the case of other finders or "attaches" it was cut to 25%. The Exchanges also ruled that all "attaches" must have a City office under Exchange control. This meant that many a West...
...thirty-dollar intervals; in olden days there were twenty-one prices at twenty-dollar intervals. The most luxurious suites will be priced at $420, eighty dollars less than at present. So even the most expensive rooms will lie within reach of moderate incomes. Some such system as the three-fee system recently fixed at Yale would be from the point of view of the House-masters still simpler and thus more desirable. But there is too much variance in the quality of the rooms and the paying ability of students at Harvard to permit...
George A. Saxton, Jr., '44, Chairman of the Union Committee, declared that he would like to see the Smoker continue on just as large a scale as in previous years, if such could be managed. "Perhaps we could charge a small admission fee," he suggested, "it wouldn't take much from each Freshman to give us plenty of money to work with...
...Some 30,000 confidential documents of the Civil Service Commission, chiefly personnel information, had been systematically looted by Harlan G. Crandall, 29, Commission employe, and turned over (for a fee) to two unnamed former Germans, now naturalized U. S. citizens...