Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Convention against paying U.S. Presidents anything but their expenses. Combine power and profit in the presidency, warned Franklin, and the nation would get not the best men for the job, but the most avaricious, "the bold and the violent." Franklin was overruled: George Washington got $25,000 and a rent-free mansion...
Havana's dressmakers also fell in line. Said Ismael Bernabeu, Havana's fashion king: "We're going to be using more cloth." For establishments that rent wedding clothes, conversion would be harder. Their racks were lined with low-cut gowns (rental: $60). Mourned one wedding costumer: "It will cost us a lot of money, but what the Church says goes...
Agreements between theatres and distributors allow distributors to stop releasing 16 mm films to groups which might compete with local movie houses. Gootenberg pointed out, however, that HLU had signed a contract this fall with United World to rent...
Cicero's Wind. A year and a half after they were married, Hubert set out to fulfill the dream. Back at the University of Minnesota, Muriel got a job as a typist, Hubert got a part-time drugstore job, worked as a janitor to help pay their rent...
...rent rise--$30 for emergency doubles--will go into effect starting in September. The room and board rate for next year will hit a mean of about $765. Opinion on the new increase varied from students who considered the move "an obvious necessity" to an rate father who termed it "a danmed outrage...