Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...schools and colleges now awn some 15,000 sound-film projectors. Last week the MARCH OF TIME was distributing to them the first issues of its new Forum Edi tion. Early subjects: Brazil, Texas, Future Airways. Adapted from regular M.O.T. productions, the eight monthly issues of the Forum Edition rent for $20 a year...
Attack. Goldwyn sent his scouts into Reno, where McNeil-Naify control the five theaters. But McNeil-Naify easily outmaneuvered them. When the Goldwyn agents tried to get an option on the State Auditorium, officials refused because it was a public building and could not be rented to private enterprise for profit. Then the Goldwyn men leased the El Patio ballroom, alongside the Southern Pacific railroad tracks. Reno's Fire Chief, George M. Twaddle, regretfully informed them that their portable projection booth did not conform to Reno's fire laws. They tried to rent a parking lot, planning...
...Continue to keep a tight rein on the cost of living by preventing general increases particularly in rent and the prices of food and clothes...
Considerable private trade goes on, especially risky, lucrative smuggling. Most legitimate marketing is handled by consumer-producer cooperatives. In parts of the Border Region, the old landlord-tenant system is preserved with modifications. Rent and interest have been cut an average 25%. Landlords may not evict tenants.Tenants must pay their rent on time except in cases of crop failure when both sides share the loss...
...Keep price and rent control in effect as long as necessary-"but not one month longer." (Said Bowles: "The controls which we administer are wartime controls. They were conceived for an emergency period...