Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Careful Exceptions. Before 1945, half of Japan's farms were tenant-operated and owner-dominated. Now the tenant figure is only 13%. The land has been split up: with a few careful exceptions, nobody can own more than six acres or rent out more than three. Land reform halted Communism's appeal to Japanese farmers. As landowners they feel that they are small, separate, independent entrepreneurs. They dislike the mere thought of Russian collectives, which many of them saw as Soviet prisoners...
Before starting out for more money, Barnard took steps to live within its present income. Resident students (about a third of the total) got a polite ultimatum: do your own housekeeping chores or pay more rent. The girls voted to do the chores. At the same time they were told that Dean Millicent Carey Mclntosh was taking an informal leave of absence, would put in her time scouting...
Bill DeWitt had his reasons. Chief among them: the Browns own St. Louis' $1,200,000 Sportsman's Park (which they rent to the Cardinals for $35,000 a season) and a new $721,000 ballpark in San Antonio. Before anybody got impudent enough to ask whose money he used to buy the Browns, Bill firmly announced: "There are no associates in this thing with us. It's all Charlie and myself...
...seventh consecutive season, the Film Series will provide uninterrupted showings the group only had one projector. But his year Ivy Films will rent two projectors and improved sound equipment to the HLU, so cameras will not have to be stopped to change reels...
...Landlords in Tulsa, Chicago, Denver and Kansas City threatened to evict tenants and take more than 100,000 apartments off the market if rent control is extended. In Kansas City, the Rev. R. Lester Mondale indignantly notified a group of rebel property owners gathered in his church's meeting hall that he had increased their rent for the hall from $10 to $100 a meeting...