Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a plan, devised by the Public Health Service's Medical Director Paul M. Stewart and backed by the Surplus Property Board's Ed Heller, took shape in Washington. Under it, the Surplus Property Board would : 1 ) sell or rent leftover medical supplies and equipment to communities which could not afford to buy them on the regular market; 2) charge almost nothing - e.g., a dollar a year rent for expensive X-ray apparatus...
Ceiling Zero. In Muskegon, Mich., the local OPA, with no jurisdiction over commercial buildings, started searching for new offices when its landlord proposed to boost the rent from $175 to $600 a month...
...pronounced Marteen and that Benny came from deep on the ineligible side of the tracks, they have very little time left to give him a creditable background. When they swoop on Benny's father, he thinks they have come in force to evict him for nonpayment of rent. When he finally realizes what the game is, the boosters, the general, the girl and the no-good have to work out their own solutions...
...hopes to increase the supply of beef and pork. This week Economic Stabilizer William H. Davis explained how: ¶Higher prices ($7 million more) will be paid to packers of Army beef, and all packers who operated profitably in peace time and can prove a loss from their cur rent packing operations will receive a special subsidy. In addition...
Profits were ½? a peg, paid by the Marine Corps. It furnished the lumber; heat, light, power and rent were supplied by the prison, all free. Hundreds of fellow convicts were hired by the convict capitalists for as little as 40? a day. In this capitalistic Utopia, with no overhead, the pegs rolled out, the profits rolled in. There was only one catch; the four hobby shop owners are serving life terms for murder...