Word: upkeep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four weeks ago they stopped trucks leaving West Berlin for Germany's West zone, demanded a toll of $75 a round trip to pay for "road upkeep." They had already cut off the Berlin-Mittelland barge canal for "repairs" and hampered railway parcel-post shipments on still another pretext. Meanwhile, Red negotiators sat down with West German officials to talk about a new trade agreement between East and West Germany...
Today the Arabs are scattered in miserable camps from Egypt to Lebanon. The rest of the world has not behaved much more generously than the Israelis: in three years, U.N. contributed $74,922,541 for their upkeep (of which $43,450,000 came from the U.S.), barely enough to keep them alive. Private charity in the U.S. has raised a mere $8,000,000 to help them.t...
Inflation is spiralling so fast, Provost Buck explained recently, that the University can't accept the gift of a building unless it came with an endowment large enough to pay upkeep for it for years. The H.A.A.'s main difficulty right now is that it can't upkeep on buildings built in the '20's, because the income from the endowments is now too small...
...West German passenger cars and trucks traveling the 103-mile stretch of Autobahn through Soviet-controlled territory that connects Western Germany with Berlin. The toll ranged from $2.40 to $36, depending on size and type of vehicle. Stated reason for the road levy: East Germany needs money for the upkeep of the Autobahn...
Besides decreased football revenues, constantly growing upkeep costs on the athletic plant are behind the heavy losses. The deficit for the past year was almost double that predicted. Overestimation of gate receipts from football, it is understood, were partly responsible for the huge discrepancy between the expected and actual deficit of the H.A.A...