Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rate of $3.50 per month, students can rent car space either by the year or by the month, the only condition being no parking Saturdays during the football season. The fall Saturday rental pays for half the taxes on the lot, it was learned...
...restricted merchants to eleven compact areas, built them shopping centers (against rent and a percentage of gross receipts) in Spanish, Elizabethan and Colonial styles. Home builders got a choice of one of three areas (large, medium-sized or small houses), where each could build a house according to his own pocket-book-and Nichols' choice of architecture...
...Trial. In Pittsburgh, Kaiser-Frazer dealers were offering new cars on a trial basis. The terms: $200 down and $100 monthly "rental" for six months. At the end of that time, the customer can return the car. If he keeps it, the rent is applied on the purchase price...
...along in Europe on handouts from his brother João, a rich socialist. World War II sent him, along with many another refugee, to the U.S. Friends, who found a New York hotel suite for Mangabeira, wife Esther and their two grown children, told him that the rent was $90 a month and paid the difference. He has since repaid them. Within six months, Mangabeira had picked up enough English to get a job doing translations for the Reader's Digest. Not so apt with languages was wife Esther, who sometimes had to order honey at Manhattan delicatessens...
...school is in a white colonial farmhouse 200 yards from the huge, functional ex-factory that houses the U.N. at Lake Success. The U.N. turned the farmhouse over rent-free to a parents' association of delegates and secretariat members. U.N. parents park their youngsters at the nursery school on their way to work at 9:30 a.m., leave them there till...