Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extreme nationalists, weak in numbers, strong in Army and police support, controlling the Government, determined to push an antiSemitic, antilabor, anti-liberal domestic program. On the opposing side: practically all other Argentines, including disgruntled Navy and Army officers; wealthy landowners and industrialists who dislike the Ramirez Government's rent and price controls; labor unions, whose leaders have been arrested wholesale; students and liberals, who are alarmed over the suppression of civil rights...
...Manhattan, OPA went into action against a coal dealer whose fuel, added to any fire, managed to put it out. In Chicago, members of the Restaurant Association hopefully adopted a new plan to keep their waitresses happy-offered to send them through music school. In San Diego, OPA ordered rent reductions by a woman who had rented as living quarters her home, her old garage, her new garage, a tent on her lawn, a bed under a canopy in her back yard...
...biggest U.S. firm of efficiency experts, Chicago's George S. May Co., passed a minor milestone. In Manhattan's Chanin Building, where once it could not pay its office rent, the May Co. opened an entire floor of dazzling new red, blue and chartreuse offices, celebrated with a gay get-together. Chief speaker, as usual, was the company's florid, talkative president, George Storr May. Topic...
...Hale Bros.' building was built on land leased from an estate (the rent: $90,000 a year), on a deal wherein the store would revert to the landowners, upon payment to Hale's of $350,000 when the lease ran out in 1944. Once Hale's almost bought the site for $1,500,000, but stalled for a better bargain. Then someone else snapped up the whole works: San Francisco's famed real-estate operator, Louis R. Lurie...
...week selling job for a shopkeeper friend of his mother's. Three years later he opened his own shop with his sister (the "Bess" of Bes-Ben, now married and out of the business). Two years after that he had gone from one employe and a $35 rent bill...