Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news of the leave is, of course, that only one man took advantage of the opportunity to increase his rent and subsistence by virtue of a dependent. Congratulations...
...object was to make self-sustaining landowners out of experienced and dependable tenant farmers, sharecroppers and farm laborers who had no land or equipment. The tenants would be allowed to lease farm land at from $5 to $29 an acre, and pay rent from earnings. They would buy equipment and market their produce cooperatively. Eventually, the tract would be broken up into small farms to be sold to tenants on a long-term payment plan. When directors and members had proved themselves, Government supervision would stop...
...questions. It took seven more months to find out what the answers meant. Last week the results were in: since most Confessions' readers are between 20 and 34 years old, they are obviously neither frustrated old maids nor sex-stirred bobby-soxers; 72% are married; they pay more rent ($29 a month) than the average Daytonite ($25); 72% have graduated from high school, 3% from college; 100% buy soap...
Said a doctor standing by: "Look at that. First they take out the spleen, then they resect [cut and mend] the small bowel, next they sew up the rent in the colon. In civilian life any one of those would be regarded as a major operation." Before the two doctors finished, they had removed a total of nearly two feet of gut, which they tossed into a wastebasket...
...operations and a fleet of C.N.J.'s engines and cars to C.R.P. He would also lend C.R.P. $750,000 for working capital. Then little C.R.P. would collect the $16-odd million of freight earnings on Pennsylvania coal, pay its earnings to C.N.J. either as dividends or as rent for the use of its tracks and leased lines, thus avoid the Jersey tax. All that stood between Boss Wyer and this relatively ideal situation was court approval, for which he applied last week...