Word: upkeep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Company planes are not all savings, however, and businessmen seldom like to talk about their upkeep. Operating costs for a company plane, in the air 600 hours a year, can run as high as 65? a passenger mile v. an average 5½? on commercial flights. The cost can be much higher if a corporation does not dispatch the plane with all the care of a commercial airline, making sure it is in constant use. But businessmen can cite other kinds of economy, such as the case where a salesman, flown direct to a customer in a company plane, signed...
...nothing new. We have found from past experience that the posting of a reminder of this will tend to encourage the sale of House cards to those who have neglected to pay their dues. Such encouragement is only fair to those who have paid their share toward the upkeep and continuation of the House services and facilities...
...area chief, Richard L. Donnell: "A lot of those that come in are worth thousands of dollars in land and equipment . . . but they don't have any cash, so they're going to try to earn their family's keep and their farm's upkeep until their farms can provide a living again...
...Geographic Institute, situated on Divinity Avenue between the Semitic Museum and the University Press, was built by Dr. A. Hamilton Rice '98 in 1929, at a cost of $335,000. Rice gave the building to the University, but continued to pay the staff and upkeep costs. When the College dropped geography as a field of concentration. Rice cut off his support and the building was closed in October...
...Elimination of the $12,000 spent by the Army Quartermaster every year on upkeep of "non-usable horses and mules...