Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concerts, very likely the best entertainment in Boston these days, are being given every night except Mondays at 8:30. Every night the range of the music is immense; tonight's program, for example, includes things by Handel and Johann Strauss. To rent a chair costs a dime, but if you're healthy or sensible, or both, you'll pay nothing and lie on the grass...
...trouble started back in 1940, when a Catholic-dominated school board voted 3-2 to incorporate the St. Margaret-Mary Parochial School into the public-school system, entitling it to state support. They changed the school's name to the Grace Avenue School, ordered rent paid to the parish for the building, and put St. Margaret-Mary's eight teacher-nuns on the public payroll. The school stayed Catholic; its pupils went to class half an hour early every day for religious instruction...
...captain and a very much alive young widow, excellent and almost believable entertainment. Only the loud, artificial background music is out of place. The widow, Gene Tierney of course, is beset by all sorts of worries from beginning to end. She has no money to pay for the rent, so the captain dictates the story of his life to her, which she has published under the appropriate title of "Blood and Swash." Another time she is left in the lurch in timehonored tradition by a smooth apple of a cad. played with spirit by George Sanders. The Tierney trips through...
...down payment on the rent, he posted a $150,000 check with WAA. WAA phoned the bank, found that Tucker had about $3,000 on deposit. When Tucker pleaded for more time to raise the rent money, WAA obligingly returned his check and gave him an extension to March 1. When Tucker again failed to fulfill the contract, WAA gave him an extension to July 1. However, it insisted that he have at least $15 million on hand then...
...Corp. It also contracted to pay Tucker some $75,000 a month to pay a staff to look after the $100 million worth of Government tools and surplus equipment in the plant. In return, Tucker promised to pay $1,000,000 by Oct. 1, 1946, for two years' rent, and $2,400,000 a year thereafter. Then Tucker fought off Wilson Wyatt's attempt to take the plant away from Tucker and use it for Lustron Corp.'s prefabricated housebuilding (TIME...