Word: upkeep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bureau for the Colonization of Ethiopia, the Imperial African Transport Commission, the Commission for Control of Albanian Banks, etc. Under a decree of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1819, deriving from a contract made in 1594, the government still ceremoniously pays Naples $21 every year for the upkeep of military orphans. It still advertises old scholarships that pay 16?^ a year to the winner-even though it now costs 32?^ to apply. In the Rome recorder's office; all documents are still laboriously transcribed by hand-five times...
...Seattle Insurance Man George Newell purchased Los Angeles County property (near the Santa Anita race track) for $6,050 each, soon sold it for $12,500 each and pooled the money to start the Breel Racing Stables. After that, Newell furnished almost everything that was spent for the upkeep of the stables. He also paid Brewster $5,000 a year. Brewster earned the $5,000, as he himself told the story, for getting up at 4:30 a.m. to see "what horses needed to be walked...
Kansas City's Topic A was a 1% tax that the city government wanted to levy on earnings so that suburbanites can be forced to pay for the upkeep of the city they inhabit by day and shun by night. In Hollywood the swimming-pool set, thousands strong, responded to an unseasonable temperature in the 80s by flicking winter's debris off the water. Los Angeles and Brooklyn joined in the guessing about whether the Dodgers would really move West. Detroiters based buoyant hopes on the first signs of a heavy spring market for 1957 cars (see BUSINESS...
...that Polish coal exports be sold to Russia at a nominal price per ton (about one-seventh the market price). He also arranged that Germany should pay Poland reparations, but these he collected himself. He then forced the Poles to accept a permanent Soviet army of occupation, for whose upkeep Poland paid. He also maintained access through Poland to Soviet divisions (now 22) garrisoned in East Germany...
...disappointed that Gomulka had agreed to recognize the "workers" regime in Hungary, though Gomulka had refused to endorse Kadar by name. Instead of getting the Red army out of Poland, he had entered into a new military agreement by which six Soviet divisions would remain in Poland, although their upkeep would in future be paid for by Moscow. His reason: "Safeguarding our security and protecting the sanctity of the Oder-Neisse line." The poison sowed by Stalin was still being harvested by Russia...