Word: upkeep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Granted that expenses of service and upkeep are higher now than before the war, the fact remains that the University for the next few years will be operating far above normal capacity. Not only will every room be occupied but present plans call for an extra man being quartered in every room in which it is possible. This increased number of men per room will add substantially to the University's rental income even if the basic rent level remained unchanged. This is to say nothing of the fact that the University will be receiving rent for three terms...
...levy, ostensibly to raise funds for the reconstruction of Berlin, amounts to 50% to 65% of their rents. From the balance of their receipts, landlords must pay income taxes, property upkeep, etc. If all the balance goes for such expenses, landlords may appeal for relief. Small property owners (whose property is not worth more than 10,000 marks), churches, hospitals and municipal bodies are exempt from...
...become embroiled in politics; 3) with a bull-voiced man who, apparently jealous of the library's dignity, denied that it maintained a cat of any sex. But L'Epoque stuck to its guns, insisted that the cat was a regular government fonctionnaire and that its upkeep allowance was 30 francs (60?) a year...
...women. After seeing and going out with a number of both I'm convinced we certainly do. My advice to any bewildered bachelor back home: send to England for a wife. The initial investment may be large but she will save you two thousand bucks a year in upkeep...
...walking show-windows for the Army − burgeoned with new white hel mets, white webbing belts, white leggings, and snow-white gloves which made even the peerage envious. For this glistening grandeur, the stiff-necks got an extra al lowance, but murmured through stern lips that the upkeep, especially of gloves, was terrific. The Provost Marshal called the new equipment an aid to dignity and blackout identification. The G.I.s called its rednecked wearers a distasteful new name: "snowdrop." Easy-going General Ike, who has a spit-and-polish West Pointer inside, decided the whole European Theater of Operations personnel needed...