Word: upkeep
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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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...
...Macon, Ga. the White-Fringed Beetle Control Division was paying for upkeep on an airplane which had flown only 30 hours in two years and only two hours in 1949, for testing...