Word: tab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picked up the full air tab-$8 per person. Refugees settling in Miami were processed and on their way home with relatives a few hours after their arrival; those locating elsewhere stopped over in "Freedom House" at Miami's International Airport, where barracks and mess halls were set up. Within 48 hours after their arrival, 54 of the first 75 refugees were on their way to Illinois, New York, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, West Vir ginia, Virginia and Colorado. To start them off, the U.S. gave each refugee traveling alone and going beyond Miami a $60 grubstake, and each...
...accessories and truck weight. In the Interstate system, which is supposed to cost $46.8 billion by the time it is finished in 1972, the Federal Government pays 90% of the cost and the local governments chip in 10%. Once the road is built, local taxes must pay the whole tab for maintenance-and this year maintaining old roads is costing no less than a third as much as building new ones. "It's like giving a Cadillac to a guy making $1,000 a year and saying 'O.K., you take care of it,' " says one traffic...
...Atlanta group got a week in London at a top hotel with all their meals, plus a round-trip jet charter flight. It cost them just $250 each. The Victoria Sporting Club picked up the rest of the tab. As with the three other Victoria-sponsored junkets this summer, that came to around $60,000, but the Americans have evidently been generous losers. "So far," purrs one official, "we have managed to come out ahead...
Prickly Provisos. Tuohy, the C. & O.'s vice chairman, and Herman H. Pevler, the Norfolk & Western's president, attached some prickly provisos to their willingness to take in the indigents, notably that some layer of Government permanently pick up the tab for commuter losses on three of them. Beyond that, the merger must surmount threatened minority-stockholder suits and possible antitrust objections from the Department of Justice, then win approval not only of the five little lines (most of which consider the offered price too low) but also of the Interstate Commerce Commission, whose deliberation may well take...
...TUNISIA. With one of the highest per capita aid rates ($15 a year, roughly equal to the average share of U.S. citizens in the aid tab), this dry and dusty country is rapidly being turned into a gigantic orchard. President Bourguiba has pushed the plan to sink most of $397 million in economic aid since 1958 into fruit and vegetable production...