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...Ridley Mitchell to abolish Congressmen's mileage allowance. Having also voted down Congressman Mitchell's amendment forbidding Congressmen to hire their relatives as clerks, it promptly passed a $20,357,165 legislative supply bill, up $886,134 from the current year's appropriation for Congress' upkeep...
...wall the previous afternoon. The scarcity of wheat caused by Drought had eaten into Manny Rosenbaum's warehouse business. Income from storing other people's wheat (1½? a month per bu.) had sunk out of sight; in its place was a heavy drain on cash for upkeep and taxes. And loans from banks were large. Rosenbaum Grain Corp. filed petitions in Delaware's and Chicago's Federal Courts to reorganize under Section 77b of the Bankruptcy...
...what does it cost Harvard per boy for the upkeep of his suite? Well, in the figures I learned while at school, at $1.28 for wages and an average of 15 boys it would cost Harvard just $.085 cents...
...yardstick, it compares on a basis of absolute equality with the charge for attractive "apartments with Kitchenette" in Cambridge. These houses themselves were outright gifts, and there are no taxes. In contradistinction, the apartment owners have to provide for capital outlays and taxes. With this comparative advantage in upkeep charges, the least the College can do is to provide an adequate staff for the care of rooms. The self-congratulatory phrases about drastic economics and shakeups should not conceal the fact that there is such a thing as false economy...
...once conducted the Beulah Home & Maternity Hospital in Chicago two doors from the garage where seven Chicago bootleggers were massacred on St. Valentine's Day, 1929. A search of the House last week disclosed a musty operating room and bundles of letters from girls promising to pay for upkeep of themselves and children...