Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill Bingham, Director of Athletics, put the dampers on the proposal that Boston College be allowed to rent Soldiers Field next fall for several football games when he explained yesterday that by renting the stadium the University would be going into competition on a commercial basis and would thereby be making itself liable to property taxes on its Soldiers Field grounds...
Current proposals have suggested that it would be a financially sound proposition to rent the stadium to the Eagles on the weekend that the Crimson football team played out of town. A percentage of the gate receipts would help to make up the deficit in the H.A.A. budget...
According to Bingham, however, the rental proposition is impossible, because in trying to rent the field to Boston College, the University would be going into competition for profit with the owners of private stadiums, such as Fenway Park...
...these heated but human cries rent the air, from an old man came a cold, terrible-childlike idea that was as startling as the touch of a dead hand. To the ingenuous mechanic's mind of Henry Ford, the logical course was for the U. S. to help the nations destroy each other...
City for sale, for rent...