Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House of Commons rose the Prime Minister's Lord Privy Seal, Socialist Clement Richard Attlee. Leader of the British Labor Party. As usual Mr. Attlee looked like a small, nervous, underpaid schoolteacher who is falling behind in his rent. He clutched a single sheet of paper which contained the whole of an Emergency Powers Defense Bill just drafted by the Churchill Cabinet. The greatness of the hour gave unimpressive, often quarrelsome Clement Richard Attlee stature in the first really big moment of his career...
...Sarah Greenberg of Philadelphia got $4.80 a week. Out of that she spent $3 a week room rent; on the $1.80 she had left she ate "sardines and other things." But Mrs. Greenberg did not look as if $1.80 a week was quite enough. Last week, while the House Appropriations Committee debated the 1941 Relief Bill, Mrs. Greenberg and her many sisters "The Daughters of the American Depression" gathered in Washington and told how they had been getting along on relief. Wives of Congressmen and Cabinet officers came to listen also Eleanor Roosevelt...
Tall, gaunt Mrs. Hughes Easley, wife of a disabled electrical worker in St. Louis and the mother of eight, was elected "Mrs. Unemployed American Mother." Her family food allowance: $58.85 a month. Rent allowance: $10. Mrs. Roosevelt was invited to sit next Mrs. Easley at a reliefer's dinner. The menu: 2 oz. beef stew, % carrot, 1 onion, % potato, % slice of bread, 1 pat of oleomargarine, 1 canned prune. Mrs. Roosevelt agreed that the dinner was not quite enough...
...cities, Railway Extension, Inc. opened a train-auto service. Sponsored by the roads (which put up no funds but gave terminal facilities for booths and parking spaces, telephone & telegraph service), Railway Extension was designed to persuade travelers to leave their cars at home, cake their journeys by rail, rent cars for use at their destination...
...Railway Extension is a husky, happy-go-lucky, talkative automobile dealer named Ed O'Shea. Weary of turning away potential customers who came to his Lincoln, Neb. agency from the next-door bus depot and the nearby railroad station to ask whether they could rent a car for a few hours, Dealer O'Shea worked out Railway Extension, took it to the railroads. At present his agency operates its own cars (500) in some 35 cities, has contracts with local drive-yourself agencies in the others...