Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train. At one time in North Carolina it was considered almost as disgraceful to be without an A. & N.C. pass as to vote Republican. In 1904 the State leased the line to Norfolk Southern, got it back in 1935 when Norfolk Southern (in receivership) could not keep up the rent. Under State operation again, the A. & N.C. was a red-ink factory. Only by forgetting about repairs was the State able to hold its four-year deficit down...
...Army game, extravagant equipment rentals (paid for by the Government), is being played all over again: a Washington, D.C. contractor rented a $4,200 tractor for $3,907.42 and a truck valued at $425 for $414.34; a Chicago contractor paid $1,023 rent on a $1,400 truck; a New Jersey contractor rented a 1927 dump truck valued...
...Rent Science, Art Films...
...Representatives in the entire theory of total war, to persuade them into his belief that price control is essential, now. But price control, "the greatest single necessity of our present crisis," he argued, "must be intimately tied up and move in step with all other war controls, wage and rent control, priorities, conservation, commandeering, war trade, war finance. . . . They are like the fingers of a hand. Without all together, the job cannot be done satisfactorily...
...Eleanor Roosevelt gave up her small hideaway apartment in Greenwich Village, moved her stuff to the family mansion uptown to save rent and air the mansion occasionally.....Vichy announced that the $2,000,000 art collection confiscated from fugitive Maurice de Rothschild would be auctioned for the national relief fund. ....The widow of Auto Pioneer John F. Dodge ordered the $3,000,000, 110-room, untenanted Dodge castle in suburban Detroit torn down so that the land could be sold....Sculptor Heinz Warneke's two 31-ton stone eagles, brief ornaments of Washington's Social Security Building till...