Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Veterans of World War II will get the first chances to rent apartments, in accordance with the Rent Act of 1949. The next priority goes to members of the faculty, students and the staff of the University. Then the general public gets its chance at the apartments...
Only in housing were the planners not moving as fast as some people thought they should. The federal housing bill would help, but estimates were that 60,000 Pittsburghers needed low-rent housing. The best Pittsburgh could hope for was adequate housing by 1970. R. K. Mellon, Davy Lawrence and the others maintained that first things came first. Industrial Pittsburgh had to be rescued first; that was the foundation of the whole town's economy...
...Atlanta, does even an "ook" give out with a wolf whistle, but? No. When girls pass by, more likely the air is rent with cries of "Woowoo, choo-choo," or even a snatch of verse: "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, come on, baby, you must, you must...
...perch on a midtown Manhattan street corner, another $4,500 to put it up somewhere else. Alfred Birnbaum, scraping along on his $105-a-month G.I. benefits while he studies optometry, just didn't have that kind of money. To make matters worse, it was costing $50 rent for every day the house remained on the parking lot, where it had been raffled away (at a loss) by the American Women's Voluntary Services...
Last week, having run up $800 in back rent, Alfred Birnbaum decided he was better off when he was in his small walk-up fiat, sold all his rights to the $15,000 dream house to a New York lawyer for $1,000, to get the blamed thing off his hands...