Word: rental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WOMEN LIVE Too LONG-Vina Delmar -Earcourt, Brace ($2).- Rental libraries are rapidly popularizing the kind of novels that Mrs. Horatio Alger, had she existed, would probably have longed to write. If Horatio's city boys were exemplary, the city girls of Mrs. Vina Delmar Alger are examples. While his boys swarmed up the ladders of success, her girls skid softly down self-greased ways to hell. His boys could not tell sex from a horsecar, her girls know skyscrapers are phallic. Though writing in this general drift (Bad Girl, Loose Ladies, Kept Woman], Authoress Delmar manages to steer...
...Realty Buying, Davies Believes ... Good Bargains in Real Estate Held Plentiful .. Realty Declared Standing Test Best of Any Forms of Wealth ... Realty Entering New City Cycle, Declares Potter ... Edwards Lands N. Y. Real Estate as an Investment ... One Will Not Make Mistake Buying Now ... Good Buying Year is Seen ... Rental Market Panicky Phase Declared Ended ... Predicts Busy Year for Men in Space Field ... Revival in Home Ownership Near, Harmon Thinks...
...listened I felt myself blush to the roots of my hair. . . ." In Boston Mayor James M. Curley pointed out that Texas Guinan had promised to give half the proceeds of her show to the unemployed. Sister Aimee agreed to share all takings over & above $2,600 daily rental of Boston Garden, which has a capacity of 22,000. For the first two days attendance averaged about 6,000, collections totaled about...
...nephew Walter Strong and 36 associates bought the paper (against 23 bidders) for $13,500,000. It was recapitalized for $19,000,000. The new $13,000,000 plant, built over the C. & N. W. railway tracks, which it now occupies was leased for 20 years at a yearly rental of $450,000. To earn 5% on its debt, and meet sinking funds and amortization charges, the paper should earn at least $1,450,000 a year. Last year the corporation (including the building and radio station WMAQ) earned $989,002.* But if the financial burdens of the News increased...
...main trouble with the room rent situation seems to be that the whole business is very hazy. Nobody exactly knows just where the half-million dollar rental is going. For upkeep to be sure, but what is all included in "upkeep"? The president, the deans, the comptroller, the bursar, the seven house masters--all these men and many more have some kind of connection with the level of the rents but all except the president seem to be confused by the problem. Students are complaining, and some of the houses face the prospect of having several empty rooms, but still...