Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million-dollar building with a bargain basement, and a typical Sears façade-to be open for business probably early in 1947. The store will have a U.S. manager and Mexican personnel. The site, as with most Sears stores, is comfortably out of Mexico City's high-rent district...
Five-Room Start. When Connie Hilton was 16, he was managing a five-room inn for traveling salesmen over his father's general store in San Antonio, Socorio County, N. Mex. (pop. 760). The rent money put him through college. At 21, Hilton was elected to New Mexico's House of Representatives. He enlisted with the break of World War I, became an Army lieutenant, and fought in France...
Hatton. "I'm 54 and my son is 23. Last fall my son went to the draft board to find out if it was all right to rent some land on his own so he rented 240 acres more, and has bought tractor and machinery, and we plan to do all this together, but if they're going to draft him I will never be able to farm my own land, saying nothing about...
Subscription Radio (subscribers pay 5? a day to rent a gadget for their radios; with it, they can tune in a station which carries no commercials; without it, anyone tuning the same frequency hears only a "pig squeal"). FCC has not made up its mind whether this is "technically feasible" now; meanwhile, no frequencies...
Squirearchy's Decline. The Headmistress, tenth and latest of the Thirkell line, is just like the other nine. When Headmistress Madeleine Sparling evacuated her blitz-threatened London girls' school to Harefield Park in Barsetshire, impoverished Squire Belton of Harefield welcomed the fat rent she paid for his manor. But he suffered an anguish of snobbery over having his ancestral home occupied by a bunch of "elderly . . . slightly deformed [school] mistresses" dressed in wartime "utility non-crease . . . ready-made dresses of a kind of fine sacking in shades of puce [and] dirty tomato'' -to say nothing...