Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...article Reporter Meyer let fly with a warmhearted woman's words when she saw prostitutes in one war center parading in their wrappers. She reported talking to the young wife of an army officer who was forced to pay $50 a month rent for quarters next door to prostitutes, quarters from which Negroes had been evicted so that higher rents could be charged. From Beaumont, Tex. she wrote that the stink from the city's garbage dump "is so vile over the Pennsylvania yards that the whole shift has to be pulled off the ships, causing the loss...
...expenditure pattern of a typical student may . . . be described as follows: of his total expenditures of $673.06 he spent $110.62 for room rent and $207.28 for his meals. His clothing cost him $74.78, his laundry $9.71, and the goods and services required for his personal care $6.33. His fees paid to the university amounted to $98.43 and his dues to organizations $4.93. For his textbooks he paid $26.83 and for general reading matter $2.81. Trips . . . cost about $19 and . . . health $7.27. For recreation he spent $21.83 and for refreshments and tobacco $17.60. Gifts including flowers and contributions cost...
...Rent will be charged on the amount of space occupied by each man and his wife. Since the building is a former private home it has only one kitchen, which will be used jointly by all the occupants...
...native asked (and got) as rent for his canoe a bauble which soldiers found in a shipment of cards and games...
TIME'S first office was on the second floor of a musty building at 141 East 17th Street, New York City. Rent was $55 a month. TIME moved seven times in its first ten years because we kept needing more space-once we had offices in an abandoned brewery...