Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what the bill omitted was most important. Ignored entirely were wages, still rising nationally. Opposition by Virginia's crabbed old Carter Glass drove out a limit on installment credit. A provision for a ceiling on rising rents was jokered down to nothingness. (The bill limits rent-fixing power only to low-cost housing in defense areas-$15 per room per month, where rents have increased 10% in the last year...
...town, the migrants took over one of the huge vacant mansions in the town's ex-residential section. The WPA workers said: "Out of twenty-six dollars [a month] I can't afford to pay more than five dollars rent, so if I can get seven other families to move in with me we can take this big house to live in. ... Eight and nine and ten families in six and eight rooms...
Casey's relations with the News have been cordial, except for a bit of trouble some years ago when he was asked to cover an Illinois wolf hunt on an expense account of $10. His itemized list included such expenditures as: "To rent car Chicago to Springfield,1?; gas for same, 1?; oil for same, 5? (it was an oil eater); to rent horse, 1?; hay, 5 mills; to rent glasses to look at wolf, 1?." After worrying the subject for a while, Casey discovered he had spent only $9.90. He polished off the matter by adding: "Wolfbane...
Houses at Audubon Village are neither for sale nor for rent (nor free). Instead they will be occupied and eventually paid for under a system devised by ingenious Colonel Lawrence Westbrook, special assistant in Federal Works Agency. ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, hailing the plan as the most promising housing idea in years, describes the workings in detail in its June issue...
Frazer himself thought that his books contained "a melancholy record of human error and folly." One thing he was sure of: "the permanent existence of ... a solid layer of savagery beneath the surface of society. ... We move on a thin crust which may at any moment be rent by the subterranean forces slumbering below. From time to time a hollow murmur underground or a sudden spurt of flame into the air tells of what is going on beneath our feet...