Word: landlordism
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Real and immediate is the problem of clearing television's number one band for FM. Now in the position of a landlord owning an apartment from which the tenant has not yet cleared out, FM will not really start to go to town until Jan. 1. By that time FCC expects to have the space cleared. Included in the megacyclic housecleaning will be 13 maverick Government short-wave services...
...Grapes of Wrath" tells the now-familiar story of the Joads who, driven from their Oklahoma farm by storm and by a ruthless landlord, join the mass migration to California in the illusion that there they will find security. It has been impossible to include in a two-hour film all their adventures, and some of the most powerful are omitted in favor of the more dramatic. But on the whole, the selection of incidents, and their unification by a continuous thread of ideas, if not of action, is masterfully done; and the result is a rare combination of great...
Within a minute, Landlord Schmidt heard eight loud explosions near List. He saw spouting pillars of fire. Then he heard the Sylt sirens start wailing, and searchlights shot up to finger the sky. Anti-aircraft guns started barking like a kennel of mastiffs aroused in the night. As the two bombers roared south, away from him down the length of Sylt, Herr Schmidt could hear other long-muzzled watchdogs take up the furious chorus...
...boarding houses there must be a few enterprising souls ready to form the nucleus of other cooperatives. The trick is merely to eliminate the middleman. By renting a house for the whole year--and a lavish one goes for as low as $1,200 students can blow the usual landlord profits up the flue and cut their own costs by .50 per cent...
...only "offensive" gestures were made against the Chinese "Reds" of the southeastern province of Kiangsi, inner lair of the famed and capable Chinese Soviet generals, Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh, whose "communism" amounts to little more than a Populistic desire to give land to the tax-gutted and landlord-ridden Chinese peasant. Counting on Chiang's willingness to let the great granary of North China go, the Japanese Minister of War, General Hajime Sugiyama gave his underlings the green light signal without first bothering to ascertain whether the Japanese economy could stand a long...