Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...actress and 37 other wealthy city slickers−among them Movie ActorJean Gabin−have all staked out exurbanite estates in Orne. This has inflated land values (current price: up to $900 an acre) and displaced tenant farmers, who complain that they can no longer find farms to rent in the region...
...slowly in those days and apparently this piece of information never did get to the Eastern Shore. Only citizens who posses 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 than $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...
...committee wants the college to set up its own houses and eating halls among the lovely, shaded streets of Williamstown, Mass. It cannily figures that many of the fraternities will be forced either to sell or rent their $100,000 houses to the college. The aim: "A campus where education, in its broadest sense, would take place everywhere and at all times...
...employer for ten years. If he marries a woman from outside the area, she may not stay with him for more than 72 hours. Blacks in Johannesburg can own their own houses, but can only lease the land they stand on for 30 years. Whites in arrears with their rent are only evicted; Africans are criminally charged and can be imprisoned...
...borne family trade by providing huge parking lots, kept night hours, and sold on Sundays. The typical discount center became part supermarket, part department store, part carnival. (The pretzel vendor who operates in front of Korvette's discount center in Westbury, Long Island, pays Korvette $800 a month rent.) Even when the department stores began opening more and more suburban branches, the discounters continued to prosper...