Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...normal times the refusals would have been more than surprising. For India's viceroyalty has long been the Empire's gaudiest spot: ?20,000 salary annually, with all expenses paid, a fabulous palace to live in rent-free, and virtually unlimited power over 400,000,000 subjects. But today the viceroyalty is Empire's hottest seat. So, with time growing embarrassingly short, Winston Churchill last week had to announce that Lord Linlithgow would continue as India's Viceroy until October...
Under the plan discussed by the Council and currently under investigation by a special committee either the University will buy material outright and use it for retrainees from the armed services, or else rent the furniture out and remit the money collected to the student in cash or war bonds...
...costs; 2) the company lacked skilled managers, promoted green laborers to superintendents in five months; 3) because of sloppy records 75 carloads too much lumber were delivered and had to be paid for by the Maritime Commission; 4) as much as $1,500 a month each was paid for renting cranes, pumps, compressors on a time-used basis but no time record.was kept; 5) a director's friend supplied trucks at $114 a day for work that could have been done with flatcars at 50? a day; 6) for a storage area (owned by a subsidiary of the Maine...
...didn't during and after the last war. Foolish women paid $80 for $10.95 dresses; $18.50 for $4.50 shoes; $100 rent for $30 apartments; $3.95 for $1.25 hose; $2.95 for 50? cosmetics. The younger generation don't believe us when we tell them we realize we were fools to do it. They jingle big money in their pockets and coin purses, and look around for something expensive to buy, something they never felt they could afford before. We thought the big money came our way just because we were smart. So now the younger generation are so much...
Name News. In Syracuse. Oassie Stimer had his name legally changed to Stanley Steamer. At Rutgers University, Robert Louis Stevenson enrolled in an elementary course in English composition. In Detroit, the Housing Commission pondered evicting Worthy Peoples for not paying his rent. In Portland, Ore., E. L. Aprill and T. B. Showers enlisted in the Navy. In Baltimore, L. B. Mercier was refused a job because he had no first name-just initials. On Guadalcanal, Lieut. Dan Gaede dived into a foxhole, landed on top of Lieut. Commander Dan E. Gaede, a stranger, who turned out to be a cousin...