Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instead of running three to five years, and therefore requiring payment in huge sums, mortgages today go up to easy 25-year terms, comparable to rent...
...Days. In Los Angeles, a federal jury convicted Landlord George S. Allen of violating the rent ceiling by charging one of his tenants $2.75 as monthly rent...
...Signed a bill extending wartime price, wage and rent controls for another year. In an accompanying statement he praised Congress for renewing the "hold-the-line" legislation and mildly criticized Congressional action reducing penalties against price-law violators...
...bullet holes did not let out enough air to affect the work of the powerful cabin superchargers (of which the B-29 has two). Even a larger shell hit could be patched before all the cabin pressure was lost. But there was still the danger of a large gaping rent such as a direct ack-ack hit might cause: how would men be affected by the sudden change of pressure...
Copped. In Los Angeles, Reporter Chick Felton arrived with the police at the scene of a murder, noted the corpse, sidled up to the victim's landlady, asked: "Can I rent this apartment?" Said she: "I already rented it to that police sergeant...