Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...landlord was restless about the rent; the grocer had already refused further credit; and for the Argentine couple, who had come with their young son to live in Paris, things were getting desperate. Then one day in 1958, while the parents were having one of their quarrels, the son tucked some gouaches he had been doing under his arm, slipped out to peddle them at the Left Bank cafés. The first painting he offered went for $1 - and that was the beginning of the astonishing rise of Aldo Franceschini...
...build new middle-income housing on slum sites. If slum areas were taxed on the basis of the actual high value of the land in the city's heart rather than on the basis of the ramshackle buildings on it, landlords would be forced to build new higher-rent apartments...
...take advantage of it. "The sad part of the whole thing," commented an Oregon agricultural expert last week, "is that all Corey was doing was what the rest of the grain trade is doing legally. It's obvious that there's something wrong when three men can rent a warehouse and make $83,000 apiece in three years by storing Government grain...
...stop service. Workmen were already ripping up the tracks when Britain's antique-railroad buffs founded the Bluebell Railway Preservation Society and asked to buy the surviving 4½ miles of trackage. To discourage them, the ministry named a stiff price: $90,000. In consolation, it offered to rent them the old Sheffield Park booking office for 5 shillings (70? ) a week...
...children helped clear the track of weeds, and retired railroad men nostalgically offered their services free if locomotives and rolling stock could be found. To raise cash. 1,350 memberships in the society were sold at 1 guinea ($2.94) a year. Impressed at last, the ministry agreed to rent the society the Bluebell's trackage for $6,300 a year...