Word: rental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Average cost of "Lung Block" to Knickerbocker Village was high: $3,116,000, or $14 per square foot. The tax assessment was therefore reduced by two-thirds to bring the monthly room rental down to the $12.50 stipulated by the RFC. Because the average rental on "Lung Block" had been about $5 a room, Knickerbocker Village remained a low-cost housing project only in the minds of the white collar workers, who proceeded to fill...
...Private car costs: $75 per day Pullman rental; 15 railroad fares, plus surcharge; $3.50 per day for parking. Approximate price of a round-trip private car Manhattan-Seattle junket...
Under the sponsorship of Harvard, many of the activities of the Film Foundation will cease. It has been decided to limit distribution of films to classes in Harvard and Radcliffe and to allow no outside rental except for a collection known as "Industrial Management" and certain other films of importance to University teaching and held under a special agreement...
...available only for the editing of Harvard films. Equipment of the Film Foundation has been left so that Faculty members and possibly graduate students can make their own pictures and have the service of the technician. Departments using the films in the future will have to pay for the rental out of their own budgets and must also pay for the operator and the expense of projection...
...open-handed lending policies of the New Deal crusaders have seen an opportunity to solve the problem once & for all. So far no one has been able to surmount the fact that new tenements cannot be built to rent so cheaply as the old. The two chief factors in rentals are: 1) the interest rate on borrowed money; 2) the price of land. Land in the depths of Manhattan's slums costs $8 per sq. ft. Even with government money apartments built on this land will rent for $9.75 per room per month. With land at $6 per foot...