Word: rental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cyclone of the Piano" whose swift, sharp, unorthodox playing last year gave Manhattan music critics food for many a journalistic difference of opinion. ¶ The trustees look for no reduction in their deficit this year. Last year's was $114,000. but this was reduced $34,000 by rental of Orchestra Hall (which the Symphony Association owns); the $80,000 balance was made up from endowment incomes...
...worst stocks and make the most money." ¶ In Ohio last week eager purchasers were rushing out to the threshing floors, offering farmers $1 and $1.01 a bushel for wheat-the first time they have been offered $1 in three years. Threshing machine men upped their rental charges 25%. In the Chicago pit, wheat for May delivery touched $1.27¼ a bushel. But wheat was not the sensation of the pit. Rye outdid it. Rye (unfavored by Government restriction measures) touched $1.08½ for December delivery-jumped 23? a bushel in a week. Talk of a corner...
...emergency. To obviate the criticism that House members might be paying for privileges enjoyed by outsiders, a fee of ten dollars could be charged for the use of a House library. Clearly the situation must be avoided in the future through more cautious admission and downward revisions in rental scales, but these expedients would insure that the present overflow of innocent victims would not be seriously inconvenienced...
Into the lobby of Rockefeller Center's towering RCA Building last week stalked Rental Manager Hugh Robertson, followed by twelve uniformed guards. The procession halted before a huge (63 ft. by 17 ft.) unfinished fresco on the wall facing the doors. Its bright colors and hard, compact figures filled the lobby like a parade. On scaffolding before it stood a big, drooping man with a gloomy face and sad Mexican eyes: Diego Rivera, the world's foremost living fresco painter. A guard called to Rivera to come down from his scaffold. He laid down his big brushes...
...calls attention to complains received from townspeople and emphasizes the fire hazard of parking on River Street or in back of Dunster House, near the area of frame dwellings. Unrealistically, the University insists that any student who can afford to run a car is also able to meet monthly rental charges. Even if this were universally true, such a student would be naturally reluctant to pay, so long as there were the possibility of otherwise disposing of his car when...