Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...points in this program are: 1) Federal and local subsidy for construction of 200,000 housing units per year for two years. 2) Federal allocation of funds for research into housing problems. 3) Gradual reduction of rent controls to reduce the risk in construction of rental housing. 4) Funds for large scale urban re-development. 5) Establishment of machinery to stimulate replacement building in periods of economic depression in order to stabilize the construction industry and thereby produce lower construction costs...
...room house next door, it wasted no time looking for a Croesus who could afford to keep them open. After all, the places were assessed for $2,100,000, and taxes were $62,000 a year. Instead, the corporation turned over both mansions, on a 21-year rent-free lease, to the New York School of Social Work of Columbia University. The big kitchen would be turned into a cafeteria, and the art gallery into a lecture hall...
Mushrooming Houses. The next year, brother Alfred designed a 25 by 30 two-bedroom bungalow to rent for $65 a month. These went over so well that the Levitts bought a 1,000-acre potato farm near Hempstead, L.I., named it Levittown, and started building houses on it at the rate of 150 a week. The houses were neat and trim but so much alike that the development had a barracks-like air. But looks made little difference. By the end of last year they had finished and rented 6,000 houses (Levittown's population...
Maids may be a thing of the past if the cost of operating dormitories climbs any higher. Ivy League officials at a meeting at Cornell yesterday resolved that students would be asked to do their own housekeeping before being made to pay more rent...
...author of An American Tragedy was like one of those characters in an old-fashioned farce who is always being mistaken for someone else: he is overwhelmed with embraces by the landlady when he merely wants to rent a room, or he is treated like a lawbreaker when he simply wants a job. Dreiser stuttered for a while before he was seven years old. He had a cast in one eye. He was bullied by older boys and overawed by his brother Paul, a successful songwriter (My Gal Sal), with his fur coat, silk hat and smart cane...