Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest challenge to OPA's new get-tough enforcement program is neither the tire bootlegger nor the gas-coupon clipper but the widespread evasion of controls on rent. OPA last week swung one of its hardest punches, ordered rents reduced and stabilized on Oct. 1 in 54 more defense-rental areas scattered across the whole country, bringing under federal rent control areas where a total of 50,000,000 people live. In 53 of these areas rents are cut back to March i levels; in the 54th (Chateau, Okla.) the ceiling is based on the preceding October...
...Black rent might some day be the "sick chicken"* threatening the whole existence of OPA. Unlike most other ceiling-price violators, landlords fight back, make the direct accusation in court that the price-control act is unconstitutional. OPA remembers what happened to NRA when the Supreme Court decided the same issue...
Welfare. In Detroit, the city Welfare Department discovered it was- paying the rent for a bawdyhouse - one of the impoverished beneficiaries of its charity turned out to have been conducting a business on the side...
...sixty-five cents. Actually it appears that only those who have long gone unwashed would require soap, towels, or tonic for a simple haircut. And, as for labor, the average barber is now receiving sixty-five cents on the cutting dollar plus tips. Major overhead costs, such as rent and electricity remain the same, while equipment like clippers and combs can be used indefinitely. With the Army, Navy, and a full Summer School supplying customers in unprecedented numbers, it hardly seems that the barber business is lagging. Those who make the change may well find their own purposes defeated...
There, where France's shame had been twice compounded-in 1870 when Napoleon III surrendered to Moltke, in 1940 when Rundstedt's army poured through a gaping rent in Corap's line-Rundstedt sits with his staff. On the breast of his tunic gleam bright ribbons won in that and many another triumph-Poland, Russia, the Lowlands-and from his high collar dangles the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. But Gerd von Rundstedt has little time for dreams of past glories...