Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worked for a short while in a Boston shoe factory. But then "we saw this empty store," Mama explains, "and a German we met said we should start for ourselves because we had no money and couldn't lose any. So we borrowed $43 to pay the rent on the house and the store and started repairing shoes...
Though the University pays $11,000 annual rent to the Deposit Library (most of which comes back to pay off the mortgage), it figures its savings in labor and shelf space well worth...
...Cohens eventually decided that they had better hire a lawyer to advise them. They had to rent a loft in a warehouse (at $50 a month) to store the prizes as they arrived. For five weeks Mrs. Cohen stayed away from her job as forelady in an overalls rental concern, to answer mail and telephone calls. Between times she tried to figure out which of the hundreds of prizes she and the family should keep. When there was nothing else to worry about, well-meaning friends took up the slack by telling the Cohens that they would end up thousands...
...large body of progressive legislation recommended in the State of the Union speech, Congress passed a housing slum clearance bill, extended rent controls, increased the minimum wage, and (on the last day) approved a farm subsidy bill. An expanded social security program and a federal aid to education bill are expected to be ready early in January. The rest of the Fair Deal proposals were ignored or talked to death; a few were honestly defeated...
...husband is out; he's so on edge." Franz Weimann lost his job when the blockade ended. To Buckow-Ost, a pastoral suburb, he moved his family of four. Their home is a two-room brick shack in a tiny garden. "How could we pay our old rent of 50 marks ($11.90) when unemployment compensation is 120 marks?" Frau Weimann asked. "This week my husband gave me 15 marks; we're all supposed to eat on that." The 250,000 unemployed families live like the Weimanns; another 250,000 get by perilously on small insurance pensions...