Word: rental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pinch and Sidney Strotz has managed to find people who could show him how to fill it. The hockey games have paid well. The Chicago Tribune held its Golden Gloves boxing matches there, the News ran an ice carnival. For political rallies and the like, the rental is $2,000. Greatest Stadium crowd was the night of Senator "J. Ham" Lewis' big rally, with some 25,000 standees turned away...
...Minister from Sweden to Uruguay over Mr. Harrison's protest. At Montevideo, listed by the State Department as one of the five most expensive posts in the world, Minister Harrison, unable to find suitable quarters elsewhere, took a hotel suite at $18,000 per year, as against a rental allowance of $3,000 per year. He began to write letters to Secretary of State Stimson, complaining of conditions. Statesman Stimson replied. Their correspondence grew acrimonious. Statesman Stimson curtly vetoed Minister Harrison's proposal that he return to the U. S. and explain in person...
...towards a fortune built by automobiles is the Chrysler Building. Oldtime Manhattanites recalled last week that 50 years ago its site was a goat pasture. Modern Manhattanites recognize it as the most desirable uptown office building, admire Texas Co. for having rented 14 of its floors, at an annual rental...
Fortnight ago officials of the City of Los Angeles, of the Metropolitan Water District and of Southern California Edison Co., signed contracts with the U. S. for 57% of the 650,000 horsepower to be generated. Over 50 years they will pay the U. S. as rental a sum equal to the cost of the dam ($165,000,000) plus 4%. The Government will erect the $21,000,000 power plant at the dam (TIME, Feb. 10). Under the law no work could begin until the U. S. had these power contracts guaranteeing reimbursement of the investment cost...
...Club now has at the disposal of members a total of 55 bedrooms, some of them designed for rental at rates of $1.50 a day. Many of these rooms are rented by the month, but a large proportion are always available for transients...