Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's farm problem. Reagan declared: "All of the farm mess' is concerned with the 20% of agriculture coming under Government regulation and subsidy." To back up his charge, Reagan cited a case in New Mexico where "citizens learned they could rent state-owned land for 25? an acre and receive $9 an acre from the Federal Government for not planting the land...
...launched a campaign to convince Northerners that they can afford a second home in Florida. General Development President Frank Mackle Jr. will sell a furnished house in his Port St. Lucie Country Club development for an average down payment of $5,200. When the owner is up North, Mackle rents it to tourists, puts the rent toward the mortgage. Says he: "We are not selling sunshine, climate, or even attractive homes. We are basically selling the ability to live on $250 a month...
...living in makeshift squalor, and selling their labor for an average of $900 a year. Moving in shirtsleeves among the film's subjects, Narrator Murrow reached heights of personal indignation, as when he quoted one migrant-hiring Southern farmer: "We used to own our slaves; now we just rent them...
...sister (Diana Sands) are all jammed together in three small rooms, toilet down the hall. Wife and mother do cleaning for white folks, sister is a pre-med student, hero drives a Cadillac for a downtown business executive-and hates it. At night he paces his low-rent prison and snarls at the walls: "I got to change my life! I'm chokin' to death...
...real pleasure in running a kind of literary salon whose major figures are an unpublished poet and a jobless journalist. Slam-bang into his nerveless world crashes a huge, careless taxidermist, a man who is physically powerful and morally indifferent. He moves in on the printer, pays no rent, entertains the town whores, and laughs his unpaid, gentle landlord into inconsequence. Just when the reader is beginning to ask why the mild printer has to take all this, Author Narayan-himself a Hindu, a vegetarian, and a small, mild fellow-shows that the meek have their own kind of strength...