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...influence as a public official seemed well established. Aramco brought out that when Moffett was housing administrator in 1934-35, he had asked Standard of California to take him off its payroll as vice president, but had later demanded $100,000 (and got $25,000) for "out-of-pocket" expenses while away. He wrote Standard: "I was really doing more work ... for the Standard Oil Co. than if I had remained in the office at 30 Rockefeller Plaza." In another letter, he took credit for the quashing of antitrust indictments in 1934 against Standard of California. Excerpt: "The Attorney General...
Gall from Henry. Under this plan, the bookkeeping cost of Fontana to Kaiser would be $44 million. But his out-of-pocket cost would be only $12 million. That was all he would have left from the $44 million shipyard profit after taxes, if he could not apply the sum against Fontana...
...dawn broke cheerlessly for both sides. The 1,400 striking pilots, out-of-pocket $850,000 in lost wages, had not yet won their fight for more pay for flying four-motored Constellations and Skymasters (TIME, Oct. 28). A three-man arbitration board would review the whole issue. T.W.A., out $7,000,000 in flying revenue, had nearly ground-looped. Growled Millionaire Howard Hughes, T.W.A.'s majority stockholder: "It will take a year to recover, and longer before T.W.A. can employ as many people again. . . . T.W.A. had lost $8,000,000 during 1946 before the strike. . . . You cannot destroy...
...fitted up as a living-bedroom, kitchen, bathroom. The Government supplies all equipment, ice for the icebox, oil for the lamps, coal to keep the car warm when temperature nips around 55° below. Passing trains drop off magazines and newspapers. Main out-of-pocket expense: food, which is bought along...
...luxe coach trains already running prove it. For example New York Central's New York-Chicago Pacemaker averages 500 passengers in twelve to 15 cars nightly. So does the Pennsylvania's Trail Blazer. Both should gross better than $5-6,000 a trip on a direct out-of-pocket cost for wages, fuel, cleaning, etc. of over...