Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Told that it comes from the southwest, he beamed: "Good. It crosses 3,000 miles of sea. No atomic dust." However, most middle-income Germans reason that owning a resort cottage is simply a good investment; on their own vacations, they can save hotel bills, and later can usually rent their houses at a profit...
...Congo war debts and keep his army in ammo. He merely closed all of Katanga's banks for the week, skimmed 5% off the top of all bank accounts, and then, to make sure no one was left out, gave landlords the choice of paying 50% of all rent revenue for the past six months or 5% of the total value of their property...
...England, his wife Helen and their son and daughter-in-law farm a 520-acre place near Centralia, Mo. (see third color page), and rent another 180 acres near by. Son Frank, 24, and his wife Jane live in a modern pink-and-gray clapboard house built from architect's plans in a farm magazine. The elder Englands occupy a white frame eight-room house just a quarter of a mile away. The Englands raise soybeans, corn, wheat, have 60 head of Herefords, 150 hogs and 41 Appaloosa horses. They have a heavy investment in machinery and rolling stock...
...federation of independent dealers. Now, with Milner as chairman, National intends to convert most of its 477 stations across the U.S. into franchised operations. It also plans to open at least 100 new stations in a bid for a bigger share of the billion-dollar-a-year rent-a-car business...
...searching for a place to celebrate Sukkoth, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles, Reform Rabbi Jerome Unger could hardly have picked a less hospitable nation than Israel. The town council of Kfar Shmaryahu, a coastal village north of Tel Aviv, refused to rent the town hall to Unger's congregation. Nearby resort hotels, threatened with the withdrawal of their vital Kosher certificates by Orthodox rabbis, also turned him down. The congregation was relegated to a tabernacle in an empty lot, and held services by the light of the worshipers' automobiles. It took an Israeli Supreme Court ruling last week...