Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sergeants in the three highest grades (staff, technical, master) continue to get $72 to $157.50 a month, depending on rank and length of service. These are base rates: noncoms (not otherwise furnished with quarters or rations) as well as commissioned officers may draw additional allowances for rent, subsistence, special ratings...
...further or special emergency, or going through tedious condemnation proceedings in the courts, the President can now "take immediate possession of any . . . plant or plants, and through the appropriate . . . bureau . . . of the Army or Navy . . . manufacture therein such product or material as may be required. . . ." He can either rent the seized plants or buy them, paying whatever he determines is "a fair and just price." Only important limitation is that he must first find (but prove only to himself) that the owner had failed to cooperate voluntarily...
...World War I, Chairman Bernard Mannes Baruch went into his own pocket for rent of a floor of office space. Told by his secretary there was no more room available, he snapped: "Buy the building...
...local representative of a dress company. The Danish Legation, which moved into the same building, is still open, its Minister refusing to recognize the Government in Copenhagen. Polish Ambassador Count Jerzy Potocki rides in the day coach, has part of his staff live at the Embassy to save rent. The Norwegian Minister still lunches weekly with the Ministers of Finland, Denmark and Sweden, and each fortnight these four are joined by Belgium's Ambassador and the Minister of The Netherlands. French Ambassador Count de Saint-Quentin has nothing...
...live in the city, 108 in suburbs, and 54 in "large towns." Only 133 own their own homes while 137 rent houses and 199 live in apartments. The class owns 476 cars wihch is 100 more than the number of babies...