Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terrible scream rent the air and a concussion shook the earth. One shell after another whistled by, exploded with an ear-bursting crack on the slope...
...damchee, na, na, damchee! " wailed the tongawalla to a British officer, who was trying to rent his two-wheeled tonga at an air base in India. Then a U.S. sergeant stepped from the bazaar with the souvenirs he had bought, said: "Sorry, sir, but this is mine for the afternoon...
Prentiss Brown, OPA's new Administrator, reasoned: to the U.S. people, OPA has seemed a bully, an irritant, a source of confusion. Nevertheless, in all Washington bureaucracy, few bureaus are so vital. Rationing is necessary; price and rent controls are basic to a wartime economy. The need, therefore is to coax and cajole the citizens into liking OPA, much as tough urchins are taught to like cops...
Streamliner. An ex-Governor and ex-Senator from Iowa, Clyde LaVerne Herring, will prune deadwood from OPA. Clyde Herring's first chore will be a top-to-bottom survey of OPA. Separate price, rent and rationing control offices may be combined, the eight regional offices may be erased. Clyde Herring will look for ways to consolidate service, eliminate waste...
...Rent will be charges on the amount of space occupied by each man aid his wife. Since the building is a former private home, it has only one kitchen, which will he used jointly by all the occupants...