Word: rental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investment or to plaster another burden on the rich and near rich which may impede the further burgeoning of the little buds of recovery which seem to be cropping up in the British Isles? Second, will not the costs of purchase, destruction, and reconstruction force a high rental, higher than slum-dwellers can pay. That this objection is valid seems to be granted by the National government, who in their nascent proposal along these lines are said to have included a decree to prevent overcrowding in neighboring tenements--implying that ht maximum limit of inhabitants per square foot of rooming...
...assent, he urged that $7,000,000 be added to the State Department's supply bill to relieve foreign service conditions brought about by: 1) the 15% general pay reduction; 2) the 5%-to-6% increase in living costs abroad; 3) the 65% reduction in heating, lighting and rental allowances to diplomats under the Economy Bill. The dollar's decline had been compensated for in foreign service salaries in gold standard countries by paying in gold, but last week, as a final blow, the gold content was officially sliced...
...Minnesota law provided that the state could prevent foreclosures by requiring the holder of the mortgage to accept a fair rental value on interest charge until a specific date in 1934. Had there been no date fixed, the law would have been regarded as a piece of permanent legislation. This may be assumed from the fact that the majority opinion of the Supreme Court made a special point concerning the limited character of the legislation...
...builder, quickly became one of State Street's most spectacular figures. His firm of F. H. Prince &; Co. installed the first stockticker in Boston. In the 1890's he developed Chicago Junction Railway, which he later leased for 99 years to New York Central for an annual rental of $2,000,000. and bought up Chicago Union Stock Yards. He had a hand in building up Bessemer &; Lake Erie, which was sold to U. S. Steel Corp. At one time or another he has owned some 46 carriers including Ann Harbor, Pere Marquette. Denver &; Salt Lake...
...prospecting business that somewhere beneath the ranch's 1,250,000 acres lies oil. For years one company and another has been reported dickering for oil rights. This autumn Humble Oil & Refining Co., subsidiary of Standard of New Jersey, closed the deal. In exchange for a low rental on drilling rights (13? an acre) Humble takes over the ranch's en tire funded debt (some $3,000,000) on a 20-year note, the interest at 5% payable at the end of the period. This means a yearly income somewhat over $130,000 (figuring the ranch...