Word: upkeep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...princes of the royal blood get $32,000 a year apiece plus expenses (upkeep of palaces, cars, travel allowances); and those who hold office (four of ten Cabinet members are royal princes) get $320,000 each a year plus expenses...
Recently, Teamster officials decided that their boss deserved the same sort of generous treatment granted to retired President Tobin, for whom the union provides homes in Miami and New England, along with servants and upkeep. Last March 10, while Beck discreetly absented himself from the room, the union executive board unanimously voted to supply him with a "home and operating help." It turned out that Beck, always a good businessman, did even better than Tobin. He sold his own house to the union for $163,215, pocketed the money and went right on living there, free...
...million a year for the upkeep of the French Expeditionary Corps...
...coverage would be considered. Economy for the student should then be the determining factor in the decision. Hygiene officials estimate that such a program might be instituted at a cost of only $50 to $55 a year for each student, with part of that sum devoted to the continuing upkeep of the Hygiene Department...
...current market value of the investments which comprise Morris' endowment is $13,156, and the income from this even together with the 6d (7 cents) admission fee charged each visitor, is now wholly inadequate to cover the cost of upkeep...