Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best information was, however, that the treaty merely exempted from taxes defense plants in one country which were paid for by the Government of the other, in effect relieving the British of paying rent on the industrial trenches which they have built...
...meters, A.D.P. is moving by hand labor 120,000 cubic meters of soil, cutting and filling spots often 20 feet off-grade. But Superintendent Fred Wohn had trouble getting enough of the necessary small, hand-pushed dump trucks. A German contractor had some; when Wohn tried to rent them for the A.D.P. project, he flatly refused. Wohn finally got his trucks by sending an intermediary to lease them for an anonymous project...
LaGuardia and his Commissioner of Parks, Robert Moses, have carried out a program of civic improvement which has been unparallelled in the city's history. In eight years they have built 92 new school buildings, 25 hospital buildings, 325 playgrounds, 8,215 acres of new parks, 14 giant low-rent housing developments, 77 miles of subway tracks, and 21 new bridges and viaducts--five of them enormous revenue-producers. The administration has put into effect a far more efficient system for administering relief and welfare agencies than the city had had before--a program widely copied in municipalities throughout...
...while effecting enormous economies of management, had built 92 new school buildings, 14 health-center buildings, nine child-health stations, 25 hospital buildings, 325 playgrounds, 15 outdoor swimming pools, 845 wading pools, 252 tennis courts, 8,210 acres of new parks and playgrounds, six enclosed markets, 14 huge low-rent housing developments, one tunnel (and another under way), 77 track-miles of subways, 21 bridges and viaducts (five of the bridges enormous revenue-producers), 2,000 miles of curbing and re-curbing; 1,200 miles of sidewalks and paths. And it removed 160 miles of street car and railroad tracks...
...first year, after paying the $60,500 rent, he got by with a $3,975 deficit. Last week he reported his earnings for the second year: a net profit (after rent...