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...first thing the secretary did was to use Kesa's first-class government travel allowance for himself and put the chief into a crowded third-class compartment. In New Delhi the secretary rented two rooms in the chief's name, moved into one room himself, sublet the other, and made Kesa sleep on the veranda. He also took all of Kesa's money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Captive Candidate | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...headquarters, Silverthorne rented a shabby, $100-a-month building, then sublet half of it. "Hell," snorted Joe, "I don't need a chrome-plated office. I was fetched up on salt-rising bread and black-eyed peas." He parked his planes in the open, repaired them in Honduran air force shops. Since TACA and SAHSA already had radio range and weather stations, Joe saw no reason to duplicate them. "I just turn on the radio and listen to their weather reports," he says blandly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONDURAS: Flying Wildcatter | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

Phillips Brooks House is in charge of applications for rooms, "share" apartments, and sublet lodgings which are not University controlled. Hanneman and Co. are agents for all Harvard housing projects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Unable to Find Low-Cost Housing Units | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

Phillips Brooks House is in charge of applications for rooms, "share" apartments, and sublet lodgings which are not University controlled. Hunneman and Co. are agents for all Harvard housing projects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Unable to Find Low-Cost Housing Units | 9/1/1950 | See Source »

...other employees have been laid off as commuter service and station facilities have been cut. Though he has spent money on new diesels and track, Dumaine has cut down in other ways. He has 'canceled almost all advertising ("Money spent for advertising is very largely wasted"), and sublet the presidential offices in Manhattan. He is turning over his Boston office to some 40 clerical workers, since he does much of his work at home. He has also stopped the collection of statistics, because it costs money-"And what the hell good can [statistics] do?" He has even eliminated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off with Their Heads | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

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