Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worst thing that could happen to us would be for prices to spiral and for us to have a period of boom and bust." That afternoon, the Chamber gave its retiring president the back of its hand as it called for the end of all price control, except rent...
When 20-year-old Betty Ackerman, a waitress from Menominee, Mich, arrived there Last June, she paid Mrs. Stertz $7.50 a week for a small room which she snared with two girls. Later, she was moved to a room with two other girls, had her rent hiked to $8.50. Betty kept mum until Mrs. Stertz moved her to a third room...
...bill technically maintained the breath of life in OPA for another nine months. Actually it had preserved the shell but extinguished the soul. Unless drastic alterations were made in the Senate, OPA would soon be required to lift the price lid on nearly every cost-of-living item except rent...
...Richmond and Gordon, whose family once owned more than a quarter-million British acres. Inducements offered prospective bidders by Auctioneers Jackson Stops & Staff: moors that have yielded "over 5,000 brace of grouse and 100 stags; twelve miles of salmon fishing; 57 farms, house stances and cottages producing rent...
...Double up students in campus dorms, and cut their rent in half...