Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Circulating Millinery. In Paris, Madame la Comtesse Monique de la Moissonière launched a new fashion scheme: a "circulating library" for hats. From her stock of 100, women can rent the latest and zaniest at 500 francs for 24 hours (special offer: twelve hats a month for 3,000 francs). Said the countess: "This is my version of American mass production...
Other measures high on the Republican agenda were an anti-lynching bill and a bill to extend rent control (with the 15% "voluntary" increase), which expires in February. Universal military training was also due to come up, but its chances of passage looked slim. Even slimmer were the chances that Republican leaders would take any steps to add more economic controls. Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders said he would introduce a standby meat-rationing bill. Senator Taft is on record for a meat-rationing bill-if needed-but only a severe meat shortage would bring about sufficient support...
...standard fee recently upped to 10%. Christie's percentages on the sale of pictures, silver, jewelry, furniture, china have brought the house a prosperity equal to its fame. In 1941, the old King Street auction room was bombed out. In recent months the house has conducted its business rent-free in Lord Spencer's 18th Century house in St. James's Place. As overhead is low, the seven partners make a gross profit of over ?100,000 on an annual gross of ?1,000,000. British stocks in public companies usually pay no more than...
...Republicans bought half of Harry Truman's ten points without reservation. They agreed to tackle extension of export and transportation controls immediately. When Congress reconvened in January, it would extend rent control for another year, restore consumer credit controls and take action against inflationary bank credit and commodity speculation...
...However, we feel that it is definitely taking advantage of the students paying the usual rent for operations to begin at 6 o'clock in the morning, as has been the practice during the last month...