Word: outlay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the sum will go toward providing housing for married and graduate students-even though initial outlay on the recently-announced 800-unit Fort Devens project is expected to be small-while $100,000 is being allotted for a University Cafeteria especially for graduate students...
...securities of the companies usually went up, and he cashed in. Example: Panhandle stock went from $1 to $14. He married a tall, blond sculptress and bought the palatial six-story mansion at 814 Fifth Ave. of famed financier Jules Bache. As in his financial deals, the cash outlay was small, only one-fifth the $105,000 price. Downtown, Rubinstein worked hard. Uptown, in cafe society, he played hard. He became known as the man who always picked up the check, and thereby made new friends who might prove useful...
University Hall points to the financial outlay involved in private construction, and admittedly any sizable project is expensive. But it is difficult to reason why M.I.T., with a housing shortage much less severe than Harvard's, has gone straight into the construction business and has erected 100 units of its own, which will supplement any windfall housing donated by the government. It is even more difficult to imagine that a comparison of the financial positions of the respective institutions would effectively explain why one is looking for more units, while the other has the land and bargains, Fabian-like, with...
...only local site which remained a possibility was the plot behind Mather Hall. Since new construction is planned for this land, both the Student Council and the business office did not consider the expense of renovation worthwhile; for construction would result in total loss of the proposed parking lost outlay...
...home construction, on starvation corner for the past three years, became the first industry to get a full-ripe postwar plum. From the War Production Board came the announcement: as of Oct. 15, order L-41, limiting construction of new houses to an $8,000 outlay, will be completely withdrawn (TIME, Sept. 10). Thus builders got the go-ahead for their biggest boom yet, almost entirely free of Government control...