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...budget included $11,000 a month from the German Embassy; since early in that year Nazi businessmen have been encouraged by subsidies to give the paper plenty of advertising. With these subsidies Pampero was able to get its circulation up as high as 140,000 and pay the heavy upkeep on Editor Enrique P. Osés, whose salary was $1,500 a month, plus fat expenses covering such items as an eight-man bodyguard. Additional expenses were incurred through Pampero's 58 suits for libel, calumny, contempt, slander, vilification, defamation, extortion, and once for repairs to Pampero...
...kept off the streets last week as much as possible. They were scrupulously polite. A group of loyal Jap-American employes of a Waikiki hotel asked to be locked in a concentration camp at night, said they would go straight to work in the morning, pay part of the upkeep of the camp. (The Army turned down their offer...
...Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Lang got ?15,000 (peacetime equivalent of $75,000) a year, most of which went in income taxes and upkeep of the vast medieval pile of Lambeth Palace which the Nazis blitzed last year. In his resignation speech the Archbishop referred to his "sudden withdrawal to some obscure place ... to face ... the restraints and inconveniences of very slender means." Leftist papers tartly said they thought his ?1,500 pension was more than that...
...Army had some advice to give its men on the care and upkeep of tires. In a manual issued by the Office of the Quartermaster General, it summarized the findings of rubber manufacturers...
...Southwest Transportation Co. which Stowe accused of lush war-wrung profits, is a 100% Government-owned subsidiary. All its profits go into upkeep and maintenance...