Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago realtor, Federal Housing Expediter Tighe E. Woods can sympathize with landlords caught between frozen rents and swollen costs. Woods also knows that rent controls would be unnecessary if moderate-income families could get decent houses at decent prices...
...Signed the Housing bill, the only major piece of domestic Fair Deal legislation to pass Congress so far. Result: Uncle Sam will soon help pay the rent of one million U.S. families every month...
Hill of the Highnesses. Leopold and Mary Liliane are waiting, too. Four years ago, after a nonstop drive from Austria, they arrived at Le Reposoir, a greystone mansion near Geneva, Switzerland. (The upkeep is $7,500 a year rent, plus wages for six servants, two secretaries.) They dream of a return to Brussels, and Le Reposoir lends itself to such dreams. Built in the 18th Century, it is nicknamed le coteau des altesses-the hill of the highnesses. Among others who have lived there and dreamed of lost diadems were Louis Bonaparte's Queen Hortense and Napoleon...
...rather plaintive chapter in the Government's booklet answers some questions which the AEC has been getting from would-be prospectors. The Government, it says, will not finance prospectors, nor will it lend or rent Geiger counters. It discourages people who write that they have found a place where their watches or compasses don't work (uranium does not affect watches or compasses). And phosphorescence (from decayed stumps at night) is not a sign that uranium is present...
...exhibitors think the public really wanted? No one said. Nor did any of the exhibitors hint at what Hollywood suspected was their big $10 million motive: to get up a new supply of films against which the major studios will have to compete when they have to rent out each movie individually under federal decrees...