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...Around seven shillings sixpence ($1.50) weekly would be allowed for the upkeep of children...
...Present salaries of Canterbury and York: ?15,000 and ?9,000 ($60,000 and $36,000) respectively. Nearly all of this goes for income tax and upkeep of their official palaces-the kind of expenditure which the Bishop of Ely, when vainly trying to get rid of his palace in 1939, called keeping "too many gardeners to grow too many vegetables to feed too many servants to make too many beds...
Since the first World War, the Boat Club had been operated under the direction of the H. A. A. for the benefit of all students, while the old trust fund, administered by a board of trustees, provides for the rental and upkeep of the building. The fund has paid for all repairs and insured the building, while the College maintains the rowing equipment...
...been scaled down. When construction work on the Burma Road ceased, millions of dollars had been spent, but millions more will not be spent. Nearly a billion has been saved on the barter agreement with the U.S., since there is now no way to export products. The huge upkeep of Shanghai institutions, such as the courts, has been eliminated and the road-building program has ceased. On the other hand, revenue by land taxation in kind (one of the biggest social experiments of the war) has resulted in collections of 2% above expectations. Early this year the Central Government took...
...tolerated since "education is a necessary thing." Mickey will talk any time about the underhanded way Harvard forced hundreds of people out of their homes in order to build some of the Houses, or the way the college sits complacently by paying nothing for the expensive upkeep of streets and sewerage. Yet his most stinging criticisms are saved for the students themselves. "Students of yesterday were honest, but that's not so today. They're more snobbish than they used to be, too," he says. Mickey Sullivan is the kind of American politician that, with all of his love...