Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appointing Hubert T. Delany to lead a commission studying New York's low-rent public housing programs, Governor Rockefeller has acted with political intelligence and courage...
Respectful Distance. Xerox's profits are big because it costs the company only $2.500 to make each 914. which rents for an average $5.000 a year (rates: $95 monthly and 3.5? for every copy over 2,000). American Photocopy, SCM Corp., and Charles Bruning Co. now sell rival electrostatic copiers, but they require special papers. Xerox (which dropped the Haloid from its name in 1961) will come out with a smaller, desktop 813 dry copier next fall (probable rent: $40 a month), is developing a machine to apply xerography to facsimile transmission of documents by radio waves. Though Wilson...
Free Trade in Death. Cecil Woodham-Smith has composed a bitter and terrible narrative of this catalogue of horror. The British behaved well by their lights. Government funds of ?8,000,000 sterling (more than half the rent of all Irish land) were advanced to feed the starving. Successive British Cabinets consisted of high-principled men of good will-Peel, the best of the lot, Lord John Russell, who succeeded him, and Sir Charles Trevelyan at the Treasury, who worried about money and the Irish in that order...
...charge extra for: wall-to-wall carpeting, fully equipped kitchens, swimming pools and. in San Francisco, even sauna baths. This is largely in response to the challenge from apartment builders, who woo potential homeowners with such inducements as free moving, a bonus of trading stamps, several months' free rent or even free furniture. Too many new apartment houses have been built in many areas, but apartments are still expected to account for one-third of 1963's housing starts...
Each Master has a limited amount of money available in a "rent adjustment" fund, for students who are financially unable to pay the total costs of their rooms. But Pusey indicated that such funds are very limited, and said that under a standardized room rent system virtually all students would have to pay the total cost of the room...