Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With no capital, the two promoters found 18 tenants: an avocado grower, a man who sold sherry from a barrel, a florist, a rabbit raiser, more than a dozen farmers. Beck & Dahlhjelm got lumber and awnings on credit, built their own stalls, to rent for 50? each a day. They persuaded a millionaire oil producer, Earl Gilmore, to let them use a vacant plot he owned in the Wilshire residential district. Beck wrote radio ads, got them broadcast over KNX on credit. They were directed at farmers ("don't bother to bring us anything but the best"), but shrewdly...
...anyone has found any likely prospects in the room rent ads in the Herald of the Globe, you can contact our former rearder somewhere between the 11th and 12th bridges down from Soldiers Field...
Today Negro baseball has two major leagues: National and American. Each club plays 50 league games, 100 or more exhibition games with white semi-pros. The Negro teams rent white clubs' ball parks, have a large following of white fans who like their fancy windups, their swift and daring base running, their flashy one-handed catches...
Harvard Logic. In Harvard, Neb., Robert Pinckney, 16, bought four lots at a tax sale, demanded from the city fathers $20 back rent and a $40 sales price for the town jail thereon. They turned right around and fired his father, town physician...
...buildings which were theaters in name only." Today it operates in all 48 states plus Alaska, Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Panama. Army theaters in the U.S. are now built in three sizes, seating 364, 602, 1038, and have an annual attendance of 225,000,000. They rent standard-size films from the producers at an estimated annual cost of over...