Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Total income: $14,945.07. Aldermanic income: $3,556.80. Aldermanic disbursements (rent, help, charities, grass seed, garbage cans, etc.): $3,540.08. Net aldermanic balance...
...families who rent urban homes in the U. S., about a third move every year. This week, as the illogically favorite moving day (Oct. 1) for the country's two largest cities (New York and Chicago) approached, thousands of them signed leases, hired vans, packed. Many moved to save money. Most of them found rental levels for the new season either 1) about the same as last year, or 2) definitely lower...
...people but by my house there are a lot of drunk men. There is a man called 'The Snake.' He sells liquor. One day he tried to make my father drunk. My mother said, 'Don't the be so dumb. We need the money for rent...
...contains a provisional moratorium on draftees' debts. It re-enacts the Soldiers' & Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1918, which permits the courts to postpone draftees' obligations (depending on their ability to pay). In Congress now are bills giving conscripts additional relief from taxes, rent, insurance. But by last week, having studied the draft, most businessmen decided it would not make them as much trouble as they had feared...
...Rent. Since the U. S. can allot a conscript's pay for rent of his dependents, most real-estaters see only the rosy side of the draft picture-many pre-conscription marriages. But if a rent payer is drafted, a War Department bill now in Congress says his dependents cannot be evicted (if his rent is $80 monthly, or less) for at least three months...