Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joseph Rogon, 61, was different from the fuddled old drifters who vanish nightly into the cold stone wildernesses of Chicago. He paid his rent, had a wife, three sons, and a button for 35 years' faithful service to the International Harvester Co. A Polish immigrant, he spoke little English. But he had never gotten lost before...
...public is not likely to see the film until Washington officialdom decides definitely that it wants the U.S. public disturbed. Until Washington makes up its mind, commercial distributors don't like to run the risk of making regular audiences uncomfortable. Meanwhile, clubs and other private organizations may rent or buy prints of The Pale Horseman through Brandon Films, Inc., 1600 Broadway, New York...
Journey's End. In Langhorne, Pa., Vincent J. Amanna looked and looked, at long last found a house for rent, dropped dead...
This time the man in the barrel is Hero Bernard, who lives among bums and hobos in a cubicle of the "Willis Hotel" (rent: 35? a night). First he works in a cigar store where his fellow clerks nourish their starved egos by achieving the maximum of seductions at the minimum of expense. While they dream of the day when they can buy any woman they want, Bernard dreams of deathless love and literary fame. In his off hours he buries himself in the works of Dreiser, Ibsen, Keats and Sherwood Anderson, agonizingly hammers out his own youthful fiction...
Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp., second best bidder, proposed to lease the plant with an option to buy, pay the Government rent of $2 for every ton of steel manufactured. Colorado Fuel also proposed to spend up to $47 million for added facilities, pay not less than $80,000,000 if the purchase option is exercised...