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...Navion, North American's new four-place light plane (TIME, April 15), which accounts for 20% of the company's current business. So far, by shrewd selling tactics, Dutch Kindelberger has dodged the slump that has hit small planemakers. He is well aware that the upkeep of a small plane is much too high for most private flyers; the cost of operating a high-priced executive-type plane is too much for most companies. So the $7,750 Navion is being plugged-and sold-more as a work plane for companies than a play plane for individuals...
...estimated $3,000,000 into the old-world battlements, wine cellars, secret stairways and tunnels; into the new-world trimmings, tiled swimming pool, modern plumbing (solid gold & silver fixtures), bowling alley, shooting galleries. Before Casa Loma's 100 rooms were completely finished or furnished, Sir Henry found the upkeep too expensive, quit...
Other gifts included $100,000, given anonymously for geophysical research, $150,000 from the estate of Marlon Ruby Case for the Arnold Arboretum, numerous Harvard fund subscriptions totalling $113,400.28, and other grants which the University listed as "gifts for capital," such as funds for the treatment of epilepsy, upkeep of the Yard, applied science, and the Music Department...
...which produced James Whitcomb Riley and George Ade, he carved his niche with tender, trenchant satire on U.S. life and manners. A tremendous worker, he wrote 60 novels and plays, drove himself so hard that he once lost his eyesight. In the belief that pleasure should pay, he financed upkeep of his Kennebunkport, Me. home with chucklers about summer people (Mary's Neck), helped pay for his art collection with Rumbin Galleries. Tarkington on writing: "A very painful job-much worse than having measles...
Drawing the Purse Strings. Once, during the war, there had been money for the work, but no time; now there was time, but virtually no money. The Navy had asked $400 million for upkeep and improvement of its bases in both the Atlantic and Pacific-most of it to be spent in the Pacific. President Truman, awaiting final disposition of the islands, cut this out of the budget bill. Whatever the Army might ask would be subject to the same policy of wait...