Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sister-accord, Russia renewed for five years her fisheries pact with Japan. Here too Moscow was tough. It withdrew from Japanese use 24 fishing "lots," upped the rent 6%, banned Japanese fishermen from the east side of Kamchatka (facing Attu...
...Sturges-Hughes, Inc. (the latter insisted that the former come first) has rented five sound stages at Harry Sherman's California Studios, will rent more space as needed. The new corporation plans to make some 20 films, has no idea through whom they will be released, what the first one will be, who will star, or when production will start. The plan is to begin modestly, and grow great slowly...
...Columnist Cornelius Vanderbilt reported that men are now required to wear ties at Miami niteries. Tieless men can rent...
...world's great naval outposts. The Japs clamped a lid on it years ago when they began developing it as the key to their South Pacific empire-to-be. Last week, in a swift and massive surprise attack by a great U.S. task force, the veil was rent. For two days, swarms of Naval aviators saw Truk, again & again. And Truk took a savage, historic pounding...
Garnisheed Money. Committee members reeled under this drumfire of hard-luck statements. But John Alessi went on to testify that his false teeth cost $105, that his rent is $38 (which is reduced to $30 because his wife tends the apartment furnace), that his pay is garnisheed $3.78 a week by the National City Bank, that he has to buy three quarts of milk a day for his children. This last reminded John Alessi...