Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chairman David Lilienthal had been no credit to the 80th Congress. The House had dragged its feet on foreign aid, twice had almost upset the applecart (with its vote to include Spain in ECA, its slash in ECA appropriations). No one was proud of the 15% "voluntary" rent-control bill. Action on housing and admission of D.P.s was long overdue. Congress' investigations had yielded more publicity than malefactors, had sometimes seemed to be planned that...
...Roux brothers do not plan to sell equipment. They expect to rent lenses to producers and moviehouses, hope to have all France supplied in two years. Except for a few first-run moviehouses in major cities, the U.S. will have to wait its turn...
...putter in. "He's one of us," said a white-collar worker as Romans turned out for the Inauguration Day holiday. Added a woman in a blue apron: "He was never one to take the State's money. He saved the lira. He deserves not to pay rent for seven years...
Einaudi's rent-free residence for his seven-year term will be the Quirinal Palace, former home of Italy's kings. It is a huge, drafty place, full of heavy furniture, and President Einaudi feared that he would miss the simplicity of his snug little villa on the Via Tuscolana, with its book-lined walls and plain desk. He made a visit of inspection last week. Limping through the high-ceilinged rooms (his leg was injured in 1926 when, after a U.S. lecture tour, he tried to swing aboard a moving Turin streetcar, American fashion), he issued...
...George Washington Bridge; General Dwight Eisenhower said he wanted to "surround the town" instead of making a frontal assault. Threading its way through cheering neighbors and small fry, the car drew up at No. 60 Morningside Drive, the 21-room mansion where Columbia University's presidents live rent-free. Ike and Mamie Eisenhower were home...