Word: pocketbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's troubled aircraft industry last week got one more blow in a long series of wallops to British pride and pocketbook. British Overseas Airways Corp., the Empire's biggest airline, formally applied to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation for permission to buy 19 U.S.-built Douglas DC-7C airliners for its transoceanic routes. BOAC and its Chairman Sir Miles Thomas, who once placed their bets on the ill-fated Comet jet transports, now want a modified version of the piston-engined DC-7 of U.S. airlines, enlarged to carry 68 passengers nonstop across the Atlantic...
...reason for many of the Center's caldrons of unfilled needs is found in an ever-draining container--the University's pocketbook. "Where are you going to get the money?" Dean Bunduy has asked. Certainly a large endowment does not mean available funds for every justified project. To place new lockers in Dudley's basement would take $12,000 and even the modest addition of a pool table would cost $750. A complete renovation or Dudley, including indirect lighting, painted concrete, partitioned areas, and murals on the wall would require on outlay of around $50,000, according to Architects Collaborative...
...Even spending $17.1 billion on education will hardly put a strain on the nation's pocketbook; by 1965 the U.S. is expected to produce $525 billion worth of goods and services (1953 figure: $365 billion...
...argument parried, Library administrators are left with no excuse but finances if they are to turn down a request for longer hours once more. They have been forced to admit that the students' complaints are valid and their reasons good. Ultimately, then, the decision will be made by the pocketbook, despite the reasons that the administration may give a few weeks from...
...independent GREENSBORO, N.C. DAILY NEWS: "Peace and Prosperity" offset the "pocketbook nerves." The real power will remain where it has been during the last two years, in the hands of the normally conservative Republican-Democratic coalition...