Word: rental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phillips Brooks House will offer 500 textbooks from its Loan Library for student rental today, and Monday it will place 2000 additional, but outdated texts, on sale. PBH hopes to earn sufficient funds to expand the library next term...
...colony Distributors is the name of the Boston firm which is promoting the seat rental notion. They offer different models; one designed for the concrete seats and one designed for the steel seats...
Noteworthy among the House's smaller projects is the Loan Library, built up this year to over 1500 circulating volumes, which will offer College texts to those who need to economize on books, for 25 cents a term rental...
...radioman named Robert Coar who now operates a recording studio, the Joint Radio Information Facility, on the fifth floor of the old House Office Building. Coar, his wife and a staff of five are on the congressional payroll at salaries totaling $26,000 a year, plus $1 a year rental for Coar's $15,000 worth of recording equipment. The idea came to him, Coar says, because he felt that the press "ridiculed" members of Congress. "I thought Congressmen should tell in their own words what they were doing in Washington," he explains...
...Manhattan, Rootes Motors, Inc. rented out its British-made Hillman autos for as long as two weeks with gas and oil free (minimum weekly charge: $65) and promised to deduct rental payments if the renter bought the car ($1,795). Like other British automakers, Rootes also offered tourists the chance to pay for a car in the U.S., pick it up and drive it in England this summer, and have it shipped back free of charge...