Word: upkeeper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cost of $28,000, repairs to the Stadium and the grounds amounting to approximately $10,000, the expense totalling to about $8,000 of moving the old cage to make room for the new stands, and the remainder to improvements of a miscellaneous nature, such as the upkeep and repair of the squash courts...
...cheek and even sticking out of his mouth a little bit, wrote a letter to Secretary of State Stimson about the "extremely important" Curtis-Gann question. He mockingly urged Statesman Stimson to "hurry up." He explained he was interested only as an "ordinary" citizen who contributes taxes toward "the upkeep of this great mysterious social sham which towers in importance over questions of national and international import." After thoroughly flaying everyone else concerned, he urged that a seat at table be found for Mr. Gann and that, if no other solution could be reached, the whole affair be submitted...
...John Daniel Hertz was ready to make the taxicab an industry and to upset all previous methods. He had engineers design a small, tough cab. of low upkeep cost. He manufactured dozens, hundreds of them. He painted them an eye-arresting yellow-orange. He announced rates that knocked the public's eye out- 30? for the first mile, and no charge for the "dead haul'' (let a driver go five miles to get a 30? passenger if necessary). The Yellow cabs were shined up every day. Dentists and doctors took care of the drivers. Knowing well...
...reason probably is that this part of the upkeep cost has become too insignificant to figure in the computations of most buyers. Not only has the price of gasoline remained nearly constant while the national income has risen considerably, but the prosperity that has come upon the auto industry has so increased the value of the dollar spent in purchasing a car that the smaller fractions of it saved in such ways lose their significance. Probably the most important consideration of all is that higher consumption of gas brings increased power, and it is not without its significance in America...
...these figures together and you have $7,700,000. And in ten years, another $7,700,000 will have been spent for the upkeep of these seven yachts...