Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...depression when $600,000 had been spent, one section completed. Since then, finances have gone from bad to worse. Last May the mortgage-holder, Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co. of St. Louis, foreclosed, offered to settle its $266,316 claim for $185,000, meanwhile started charging $500 a month rent. Because "even the rent had not been paid for six months, the bank at last took the keys...
...least 100% of true valuation, sometimes more. A survey of 108 properties by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board showed that they were so over-assessed that their average effective tax rate was $74 on $1,000. On one of its houses, on which HOLC collects $75 a month rent, it sets a modest appraisal of $6,000. Jersey City's appraisal...
...business in air-conditioned offices along The Bund. Back of the skyscraper skyline along the Whangpoo River, where the Occident meshes with China, is the biggest, toughest, richest big-city badlands in the world. Kidnappings, bombings, murders are the small change of its life, and a holdup man can rent a gun from a policeman for $2.50. This Shanghai has its own polyglot dynasty of gangsters, gamblers, pimps, racketeers...
...burden of taxation on the class which can best afford it-the landlords, who have been virtually tax-exempt because they control the local governments, who do most of the speculating in grain and who force their peasantry to pay as much as 60% of their crops for rent (including "protection...
...Jeeter's daughter Ellie May, Actress Gene Tierney had herself systematically dirtied every day. But, typically enough of Hollywood, the events leading up to the grime did not include giving Ellie May the hare lip she has in the stage play. Typically also, old Jeeter finally gets the rent money he has been seeking throughout the picture. In giving the disheveled story a moral scrubbing, a bath of pathos and a sort of happy ending, Hollywood has rubbed off its sharp edges of character and depraved psychology. The film will give its audiences a good idea of what...