Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million U.S. people move every year. In big cities they usually move only a few blocks, in small towns, across the street. Their reasons: to be near the Joneses, to get more sun in the living room, an extra bedroom for Junior, a bigger garden, lower rent-or restlessness. This year more U.S. families will move than ever before, and they will move farther. The cross-country trek to inland defense centers was 50% greater this spring than...
There are a great many cities that could and would support such a Repertory organization, were it formed. The great difficulty that impedes such a plan is that the Shubert Brothers of Broadway control practically every weather-proof theatre east of the Mississippi, and would set the rent at a sky-high figure if they were not partial to the idea, which they haven't been in the past. There are some groups already participating in the permanent Repertory idea: Jasper Decter's Hedgerow Theatre outside of Philadelphia; the Michael Chekhov Players, established in Ridgefield, Conn,. but almost constantly...
Worst housing shortage is at Detroit. With Ford's Willow Run bomber plant nearly ready for 70,000 workers, there are virtually no houses near the plant and it is almost impossible to rent a house in Detroit, 25 miles away. Now plans are afoot for 45,000 new dwellings in the Detroit area but pipe for water lines is still lacking. And by year's end Detroit must house 190,000 more war workers...
...agent, asked him to sell or trade the house. Parker called on the same agent, made the same proposition. The agent introduced the Perkinses to the Parkers. Their wives liked each other. Upshot: a swap, home for home, even-Stephen for the duration. Each agreed not to sell or rent his own house for at least a year. They hired the same truck, halved their moving expenses. Perkins pays his $31.44 FHA charge each month, Parker pays $31.59 on his house. Perkins now drives three miles to his job, Parker a mile and a half...
...having his pupils commute, instead of keeping them as boarders, he proposed to combine the advantages of country school life and "the steadying influences of a good home." Encouraged by Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler, Hackett sank his capital, $500, into a quarter's rent on an old Riverdale house, where he opened his school in the fall of 1907 with twelve students. He canvassed apartment houses for pupils and was one of the first headmasters to use display advertisements...