Word: rent
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...slowly in those days and apparently this piece of information never did get to the Eastern Shore. Only citizens who possess title to more than $500 worth of property within the town's limits can vote in Chestertown elections. The great majority of citizens, both white and colored, either rent their land or own considerably less that $500 worth: in the last election only 234 of the town's 2,400 residents were eligible to vote for their mayor. They signed write-in ballots, as is the custom, and re-elected an aging Ford dealer who has been protesting...
...Shops are small businesses that rent their name, product, design and sales methods from big franchisers, while mom and pop put in a little money and a lot of hours. There are now 100,000 of them. (See U.S. BUSINESS...
...changing the neon signs that have long recorded how many million hamburgers it has sold. Now the signs will flash the figures in billions, a success reflecting the bustling U.S. phenomenon of which McDonald is an example: franchising. The number of franchised "Mom and Pop shops"-small businesses that rent their name, product, design and sales methods from big franchisers-has grown to an estimated 100,000, which this year will take in more than $1 billion. Eleven hundred companies now dispense franchises (v. only 200 in 1945) to enterprises that feed people, fix cars, clean clothes, keep books...
...take a tumble, though he has always managed to regain his balance. Recently, though, Zeckendorf's balancing act has been getting more and more precarious. Last week the Alleghany Corp, complained that Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp, Inc, had failed to pay it $570,000 in back rent on some Denver properties, and rotund Bill Zeckendorf, 57, admitted that his $400 million empire was in its worst trouble ever. Said he: "I think the odds are about fifty-fifty whether we'll make it, and we'll know by the middle of the summer...
...rise is expected in room or board charges at the Med School. Dormitory rooms in Vanderbilt Hall now rent for slightly less than rooms in the College Houses, and board charges are the same, $620 per year...