Word: rent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Congress was hard at work on labor legislation in the Senate (see The Nation), on foreign commitments in the House (see Foreign Relations). In between, the House tackled rent control...
...over to brokers. Houses are still selling fast in parts of the South and in Los Angeles (average price: $12,620). But in Dallas the News one day last week carried almost 18 columns of classified ads of houses for sale. Builders were still trying to sell houses, not rent them, though the housing situation was still as bad as ever. In San Francisco, Advertising Executive Kay Daly, 26, used a billboard to help her find an apartment. Result: 93 phone calls (35 from other apartment seekers) but no apartment...
WASHINGTON, May 1--The House passed a bill tonight continuing rent control but not the way President Truman wanted it done. The bill, which now goes to the Senate, authorizes landlords to rails rent 15 percent in return for a two-year lease if the tenant agrees...
...exempts now houses and apartments and any houses which have not been rented in the last two years. And it continues the Federal rent control only until December 31, with authority for the President to extend this to March 31, if he finds it necessary. Mr. Truman had requested a full year's extension beyond June 30, when the present act expires...
...measure bars the federal government (but not states) from enforcing the rent control in any city, town or county where the local government decrees they are not needed...