Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oust to Oust. In the Yakima (Wash.) Herald appeared a want ad: "SUCKERS ONLY. We drink, smoke, gamble and use profane language. We have two children, a boy and a girl who are professional housewreckers, breaking anything handy. We have been ousted from every house we have rented, but still need a place to call home. Does anybody have courage enough to rent us a furnished two-bedroom house...
This was the highest cash bid,* although the Illinois Institute of Technology had offered $5,500,000 in cash and long-term notes. And it was only $307,000 less than the Stevens' net cost to the Army in the first place. To rent the hotel would have cost over $1,000,000 (including some $300,000 for restoration...
...enemies these women must fight are the painfully crowded transportation system, soaring prices and low military pay, appalling housing shortages and bru tal rent gouges, plus the thousand and one exasperating accidents of fortune-the missed connections, wrong addresses, misunderstanding of directions or appointments, the unpredictable changes in military orders which can cancel out months of planning and thousands of miles of travel...
Biggest beneficiary of the increase, percentagewise, was the farm owner (37%). Wage and salary earners were next (20%). Corporate profits and interests and rent were up 12% each, small industrial proprietors only 6%. The figures (showing the increase in total income, in billions, over September...
Weeping Mothers. Carlson's is no all-male show. Nazi-admirer Dr. Maude S. DeLand also approved of the Japs because, she explained, "they always returned borrowed books." Mrs. Mary Tappendorf, of the Chicago Mothers, was rent with anguish over the WACS: "What do they want to do with girls in the front lines? I'll tell you-It's SEX-and that's Mrs. Eleanor's idea, too. . . . They tell [the boys] they'll go insane without...