Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Susan B. Schwartz '64, after observing that "there is more than one kind of white liberal," described how the Co-ordinating Committee's housing drive will work. If a Negro is turned down by a real-estate agent, a white "tester" is sent around to try to rent or buy the same house. If he is successful after the Negro has been refused, legal proceedings will be instituted under one of several Massachusetts anti-discrimination laws...
...come winter, Brijoni's climate is just too cold and cloudy, so the dictator has ordered yet another villa, likely to be equipped with his specially designed pool, to be built 170 miles southeast on the island of Hvar, where the hotelkeepers refund the day's rent if the sun doesn't shine...
...need only dial a phone number and within minutes a sweet young thing in a tam-o'-shanter and tartan skirt will pick him up in a station wagon, drive him down the road a stretch, and hand him a key. The key is for one of Thrifty Rent-A-Car System's 1962 or 1963 model autos, and the net rental is about 20% below the rates charged by Hertz, Avis or National, the Big Three of the billion-dollar-a-year U.S. auto rental business...
...autos, and sales running at the rate of $500,000 a year. Many other cut-rate car rental companies are also springing up across the U.S. Though some quickly fold for lack of capital and know-how, many are doing remarkably well. Chicago's Budget Rent-A-Car, bossed by Jules W. Lederer, 45, husband of Lovelorn Columnist Ann Landers, has opened franchised branches in 50 cities, plans to open 150 more next year. New York's Kinney Corp., which operates parking lots, now also has a fleet of 3,000 rental autos, will expand into Florida this...
...student interested in participating in the project will be made a "housing aide." He will be assigned to accompany the head of a family as a witness when the man applies to rent an apartment or to buy a house...