Word: overhead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great a profit for the middleman. They therefore suggested that their claims could be met from this source without raising the price to the consumer. But the middlemen have to pay for unloading at the freight yards, transportation to the selling point and unloading there, not to mention high overhead cost...
...VERY HEAVY DATE--to whom this game is only one of many--and not such a good one at that. Her work is mostly overhead. She wishes she could be at the Bowl for the Army game: or at Princeton: Princeton men are so nice--doesn't he think so? Very little defense--she doesn't need any. Many of her plays are likely to be offside and she needs guarding. Nevertheless a fair catch. An excellent back, and not so bad from the front either...
Further along, Rear Admiral Magruder asserted five causes of high Navy overhead...
...unfortunately but unavoidably, been made at a moment when the franc was extremely low and prices correspondingly high. Rooms engaged later and independently were cheaper because prices had descended as the franc rose. The Legion charged U. S. lessees 10% more than it paid French lessors?5% for overhead, 5% for agency commissions...
...various points in the South, frenzied blackamoors scuttled in from fields to report balloons overhead. Three more bags dropped safely the second day. Farthest South (the race was for distance) finally dropped the Detroit, piloted by R. C. Hill and A. G. Schlosser, having floated some 800 miles. (Frenchman Bennaime's 1,358-mile float from Stuttgart to Moscow in 1920 remains the record). The Goodyear VI placed second, W. T. Van Orman piloting...