Word: upkeep
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...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...
...Washingtonian's affairs are run for him by three Presidentially-appointed Commissioners, usually utterly without administrative experience. Congress grudgingly appropriates a mere $6 million a year for the city's upkeep, and in return reserves the right to park in front of fireplugs. The abused, voteless resident cannot even dilute his wormwood with a weekend binge. Bars close promptly at midnight Saturday, and remain shut over Sunday...
...dollar-a-year men, Congress discovered last week, it is not the cost but the upkeep that counts. Each of them, on the average, said WPB, costs $3,600 a year in expenses and travel allowances...
...official report of costs for the Commencement Day dinner included expenditures for such items as 33 gallons of rum (seasoning purposes, no doubt), the upkeep of 17 horses, one cord of wood, and the rental fee on sixteen bowls. This event, according to the manuscripts, was the first public commencement in six years...
...week had been finally classified as conscientious objectors (4-E). Most were in labor camps working on soil conservation, reclamation and reforestation projects formerly in the CCC domain. Housed in 59 camps from coast to coast, C.O.s are under Army jurisdiction, do all their own work, pay their own upkeep or are supported by funds from churches and sympathizers...