Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face aglow, he rose to offer a plausible-sounding amendment to the housing bill which would provide federal funds to help erect 810,000 low-rent housing units within the next six years. Bricker wanted a provision forbidding discrimination or segregation of races in any public housing project. Cried Bricker: "There has been a great deal of shadowboxing in the Congress in the attempt to place responsibility for the failure of the civil rights program. This is the one chance we will likely have to vote on this question during the present session...
...called on citizens to pitch in. Rutlanders caught the spirit. An automobile dealer, who had agreed to match one undergraduate team's collections, handed over $103; a waitress gave her day's tips of $1.17. Some landladies of student boarding houses offered a month's free rent if the money were given to the college. As the local radio station and newspaper spread the story, more kept pouring...
...typified by-among others-Air America, Inc. of San Pedro, Calif., founded last year by 34-year-old, Austrian-born Fred Miller. A civilian personnel director for the Army Air Forces, Miller joined the Flying Tigers cargo airline after the war and saved $15,000. This was enough to rent four DC-45 and start flying the lucrative Los Angeles-New York route last July. Flying 20 round trips a month at cut-rate fares of $99 ($58.85 under scheduled lines), Air America had carried 11,270 passengers by the end of the year. It had grossed...
...past 3½ months, the House had passed 364 public and private bills. Besides ECA and the arms budget, it had authorized reciprocal-trade extension, rent-control extension, executive reorganization, oleo tax repeal, and extension of export and allocation controls. It had passed every major appropriation bill for the regular departments-a chore Congress usually delays, then jams through in its harried closing minutes...
...Communists had often used a people's nationalist feelings as an instrument of their own power drives; they are now doing so in Asia. But Tito and his followers are driven by a genuine nationalism as strong as Russia's own. World communism had been rent by differences and ideological conflicts before; most were over tactics. Titoism stabs at the very heart of Communist power and doctrine...