Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles and San Francisco, new pianos are also rationed. Some dealers refuse to sell used instruments, will only rent them. One dealer has 450 rented pianos now out, a waiting list of 50 names and a tidy steady income without the risk of selling himself out of business...
...Most of them spend about $20 a day to live with their wives in crowded Washington. When they go home for weekends, they pay their own expenses and lose their $10-a-day allowance. During all trips away from the capital they also have to go on paying hotel rent-or find their room taken by others when they return...
...Ethiopian bench. Britons operate the railroad from Addis Ababa to Dire Dawa near the French Somaliland border. British officers control the Ethiopian police force, train Ethiopian soldiers. A British commission controls the Addis Ababa wireless. A British air commission rules the air over Ethiopia. Britain uses, rent free, an estimated $320 to $360 million worth of property left behind by the Italians. A British financial commission helped set up a new Ethiopian state bank. The United Kingdom Commercial Corp. expedites what trade there...
Beginning June 1, if you're still with us (us?), you'll receive, as an unmarried onsign, $216 in cold cash, $108 the 1st and 15th of each month. That includes $150 base pay, $21 for food, and $45 for rent. If married, the total will come to $252. Meals at Cowie will be $9 per week, room rent $15 a month. Oh yes, maid service comes with the rent, as long as the maids held...
...quote, "One sure way of coming home from Narraghnsett with 50 is to go up there with 100." Bob Frank and Bill Brown claim it's all on account of three men on a horse is just too much weight for any nag. Furthermore, we understand they had to rent the track for the weekend, having missed the last milk-train to Boston...