Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boot. In Philadelphia, Veteran Ignatius Miedzwiecki complained that Landlord Joseph Galzarano was holding, as security for unpaid $28 rent, his artificial foot...
...American citizens. None admits to being a tightwad, but 40% admit that they are definitely extravagant. Five swear they have green eyes. Three out of four say they dress "so-so," and you seldom catch them out in dinner clothes or tails. Like most big city dwellers, 71% pay rent for their homes, and 40% own cars. The rest live in the suburbs and pursue suburban hobbies on their own time. They go to the movies and theater four times a month, opera and concerts rarely. They smoke hard (1¾ packs a day), and only two are teetotalers. Half...
With City Manager John B. Atkinson out of town, the City Council has temporarily withheld its final decision on the two propositions, which would allow the City of Cambridge to rent the land at $1 per annum for five-year temporary housing or might instead give the University a green light on a permanent real estate project...
Problems. To clear the way for his enormous new crop of moderately priced houses-built to sell for a maximum of $6,000, rent for no more than $50 a month -Wyatt called for a halt to virtually all other construction. He would need rigid price controls, priorities, ceilings. And he urged passage of the Wagner-Ellender-Taft Bill, which would authorize down payments of as little as 5% and allow a buyer up to 32 years to amortize his mortgage...
Quicker than he could say pardon!, another announcer broke in: "Atomic energy has turned [into a] Frankenstein [monster and] mastered its inventors. Shattering explosions have rent the earth from Siberia to Ontario...