Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feeble-looking man with close-cropped grey hair shuffled up to the proprietor of the Old Orchard Inn at Roslyn, L. I., one evening last week. "I want an inexpensive room." he said. "I can't afford to pay very much...
...have a nice front room for $2.50," the proprietor replied...
...morning long the brother of Lee Weinstein, Moench's successor as old Ridley's clerk, had tried to get him on a telephone in the upstairs garage, where the stables used to be. Not until after one o'clock did the garage proprietor bother to go down to where the strange pair worked at their accounts. At the bottom of the subcellar stairs, visible by the light of one yellow bulb glowing dismally in the office, the garageman found Old Man Ridley. His curly white beard was torn out in great patches, one ear was gone...
...months the R. F. C. has lent U. S. railroads the sum of $365,782,843 with which to meet taxes, hire workers, pay off creditors, replace equipment. If these loans are not repaid the U. S. Government will some day find itself the proprietor of most of the railroads in the land. In his campaign speech at Salt Lake City last year Franklin Roosevelt put the carriers on notice that they could not look for an unlimited flow of credit from his Administration. He was ready to help them through the slump but they, in turn, must accept more...
...tale "admirably suited to talking picture presentation," offered to print a 500-word synopsis of it in its Scenario Bulletin Review, copyright it, submit it "personally to those producers whose current production demands call for this particular type of story"-all for $10. Daniel O'Malley Co. Inc. (proprietor: Daniel S. Margalies) was equally enthusiastic, would perform approximately the same service...