Word: rental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emir are a different matter. Last week Emir Abdullah granted a six-month option to lease his new lands to the Palestine Jewish Agency which has been barred by Palestine Moslems from obtaining further lands there. To Britain's accommodating Emir, the Jews will pay an annual rental of ?2,000 ($10,000 at par, $6,700 today) for 33 years, with privilege of extending their lease for a total of 99 years...
...been busy restoring, opened another Rockefeller-built R-K-O film theatre seating 560 patrons. This property is a very tiny drop indeed in Mr. Rockefeller's bucket of show business holdings. Recently the Rockefellers acquired 100,000 shares of R-K-O securities "as a result of rental adjustments" at Radio City. Mr. Rockefeller is also the handle on a whip whose popper is another entertainment chain. He is reputed one of the largest stockholders in Chase National Bank. Chase National is the banking sponsor of General Theatres Equipment Corp. (in receivership), which controls Fox Film Corp. with...
Because kitties have grown so lean, Frank Jay, youngest son of the late Jay Gould, leased his string of Riviera casinos and hotels last week for the pittance rental of 2,000,000 francs ($80,000) per year to a French syndicate in which Mayor Jean Medicin of Nice is prominent. Thus "M'sieu Goolt," who enjoyed poor health last summer, transferred to Frenchmen the thankless job of running these properties on the cheap until kitties grow fat again. Other Gould properties in France, including his paper mill, chocolate factory and the spa Bagnoles de l'Orne, remain...
...vacancies result partly from normal cancellations and partly from the fact that the number of students per suite has been increased in certain cases, in order to make possible a lower average rental, and provide more rooms for students of limited means," the statement reads. "The present figures must be regarded as tentative, since various changes and adjustments are still being made, and the figures for the year are being carefully reviewed by the seven House Masters...
...idea of renting pictures is by no means original with Scribe Woollcott. Several years ago a number of dealers organized a sort of picture-a-month club to rent good pictures to subscribers with little wall space, rental fees to be applied on the purchase of any picture the subscriber particularly admired. The idea fell through because shipping and insurance costs wiped out the dealers' profit, damage in transshipment estranged artists. Several modern galleries are willing to rent pictures to people anxious to beautify hotel suites for a few months, or to persons of fickle taste like Mr. Woollcott...