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...assigned to each of the five floors in Riverside. The twenty-sixth man, Frederic Fickenwirth, acts as a coordinator, or Captain. One of the five men on each floor is in charge of student property and of maintenance of stairways. A second, the "plumbing expert," is responsible for the upkeep of lavatories and showers. He also cleans the corridors...
...armed force of 1,370,000 men (at an annual cost of $5,000 a year per man for wages, upkeep...
...station has lost an additional $50,000. One of the troubles the new owners inherited from the old was an FCC license which permitted only daylight broadcasting on the frequency used. This meant and still means that more commercials must be crammed into operating time to pay salaries and upkeep...
Last week, to earn some extra money for its upkeep and taxes, the huge doors of Blenheim Palace itself were thrown open to the public for four days weekly. Over the Easter weekend more than 4,000 visitors paid two shillings sixpence apiece to wander through Blenheim's halls, gawp at the tiny bedroom where Winston Churchill was born, and stare at the battle flags of his great ancestor, the first Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim's builder. On hand to show them around and plug the sale of a guidebook (threepence the copy) was Blenheim's present...
...needed only $400,000 is for actual construction; the additional sum is required by the University as a permanent endowment fund for the upkeep of the rink. Under present Corporation policy no University building may be built without a maintence endowment...