Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...depreciation, etc. His profit is $200, so the Government will let him boost his rent enough to raise his profit from 20 to 30%. He will be allowed to raise his gross rents to $1,143, for a profit of $343. Owners of larger structures will be allowed to bring their return up to 25% if it is now less than 20% of their total yearly income from rents...
University geographers were unanimous yesterday in approving the new move. One, declining to be quoted by name said: "This is an indication that the administration is sorry that it closed out geography and is making a sincere effort to bring the field...
Deans v. Consensus. But in two years, even Stoke was not able to reform everybody. Some deans still take a dim view of his new "administration by consensus," call it "administration by passing the buck." Governor Long backed a constitutional amendment last November to bring the L.S.U. Board of Supervisors under his thumb. The amendment lost, but Louisiana recently began to hear, and read in newspaper columns, that the Supervisors themselves were set to bounce Harold Stoke. Then, went the story, L.S.U. might get a Louisiana man again as its president...
...Waltham Watch Co., which closed down its plant four months ago, had the cash to get started again. But there was one last obstacle. It had on hand 185,000 watches, enough to satisfy the market for some time, and block the new line Waltham wanted to bring out. Last week Waltham found a quick way to get rid of them. It made a deal with the Associated Merchandising Corp. to clear out all the watches it could at half-price through A.M.C.'s 24 retail outlets...
...opportunity to subscribe to a film series on the American Comedy. The program they selected included Chaplin, Keaton, the Marx Brothers, W. C. Fields, and others. There were six evenings of films and five of discussions. The cost was two dollars for the series, and each subscriber could bring one guest. The discussions on the cinema were conducted by Professors Poggioli, Richards, Levin, Matthiessen, and Coolidge. About 150 Winthrop men became students of the cinema...