Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President rose above the ordinary level of political life in presenting the program. He offered a multiplicity of proposals which included: 1) consumer rationing of products in short supply 2) price ceilings on certain basic commodities 3) wage ceilings for the industries that produce such goods 4) strengthened rent controls 5) allocation of scarce commodities 6) regulation of speculative trading on commodity exchanges 7) restoration of consumer credit controls 8) measures to conserve and make the most efficient use of grain and livestock...
However, HAA Business Manager Carrol F. Getchell decided yesterday that users of the Soldiers Field lot ought to pay rent of some sort to help in the payment of taxes. And once rental is charged, a parking field falls under a Boston ordinance which requires a 24-hour guard, fences, fire extinguishers, white lines to mark exits, and permits from the city council and the fire department...
Marcia Davenport lived through some straitened days on New York's upper West Side, but she graduated to better things when her mother (Alma Gluck) became famous as a singer. Author Davenport now lives in the high-rent East 70s and is the author of such best-sellers as The Valley of Decision and Of Lena Geyer. East Side, West Side is a glimpse at these two worlds. It straddles Manhattan in the manner of a crosstown bus, picking up a sampling of the city's polyglot population and giving them a good shaking-up as it goes...
...Export-Import Bank authorized France to use $93 million (and Italy $32 million) in untapped reconstruction credits for emergency purchases of fuel. The Army bought $50 million worth of French francs to pay off the first installment on wartime debts for rent, transportation and food. The biggest lump sum was a preliminary divvy of $360 million in gold looted by the Germans: $104 million to France, $29.4 million to Austria, $4 million to Italy, $40 million to The Netherlands...
...rent control extension bill passed by Congress had a gimmick in it which...