Word: upkeeper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, America is conferring with the Reparations Commission to effect a settlement of the United States Rhine Army Bill. America claims $250,000,000 for the maintenance of the army on the Rhine and demands cash payments. Although Germany is responsible for the upkeep of the Allied armies of occupation on the Rhine under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, it is quite impossible for her to pay anything at present. The American proposition that the Allies should find the money from payments received from the Reparations Commission has met with a flat refusal, and Wadsworth has declined...
...reported that the 12,000,000,000 tons of steel vessels, built at a cost of more than $3,000,000,000, will be sold and scrapped over a period of years to save the nation the cost of their upkeep and the money lost in their operation. Placed on the market in a lump, the government might fail to find purchasers for them all, and certainly would recover only a few cents on the dollar...
...unable to reach their homes through lack of funds. In many cases assistance will be given to the families as well as to the men themselves. The running expenses of the Cambridge chapter of the Red Cross are extremely low and none of the money collected will go towards upkeep of the branch or drive. To meet the expenses of caring for the wounded or sick soldiers, the Cambridge chapter needs a minimum of $3000, for the greater part of which it is dependent on the college drive...
...will open this morning when canvassers from each class start work in an endeavor to secure a contribution from every undergraduate of the University. The money collected will be used wholly to benefit disabled veterans of the World War, and none of it will go toward running expenses or upkeep of the chapter itself. The University committee in charge consists of Bradley De Lamater Nash '23, of Brookline, chairman; 1922, John Crocker of Fitchburg; 1923, Vinton Chapin of Boston; 1924, Daniel Stewart Holder of New Orleans, La, 1925, Josiah Humphrey Child of Westwood...
...revenue of the railroads is much in excess of the 5 1-2 percent on their valuation, which the railroads have yet failed to earn. The Transportation Act makes it clearly mandatory upon the Interstate Commerce Commission to prescribe such rates as will pay all operating expenses, including property upkeep and depreciation, and a net income of at least 5 1-2 percent on the value of the railroad property in public...