Word: rental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Owsley's Fire Escape." For more than two years Rector Clingman's congregation met in their former Negro church with its old memorial windows ("Given in Memory of Big Boy Howard"). Two potbellied stoves heated it, none too well; Joe Heitzman's boat rental place next door brought confused customers stumbling into church. This spring the congregation moved into a new $200,000 church. The members voted to name it "St. Francis-in-the-Fields"-though not before some friends of Distiller Owsley Brown ("Old Forester" and other brands) had needled him with such suggestions as "Owsley...
...buyer of the lot will be required to allow a small lunchroom which serves MTA employees to remain at the present low rental and may be forced to keep some of the area open to parking...
Beleagured Mr. Mumford was ducking other brickbats. Stuyvesant tenants wrote indignantly that their quarters were equal to anything in town at two or three times the rental and "they feel that they are in heaven." Said Mumford grumpily: "Like almost all New Yorkers, who have spent most of their lives in cramped, sunless, dusty and even garbagy blighted areas, they have no proper basis for judging Stuyvesant Town ... If one judges housing not in terms of rents and profits and prestige but in terms of human decency, the greater part of New York consists, in Patrick Geddes' words...
Notable among the exceptions to the general crush, was the U-Drive-It Co. Contacted last night, the Cambridge branch office said that there were still quite a few cars available for rental...
...estate lobby and the Cambridge garage owners had pressure brought to bear and this area became a fire hazard. Fine and dandy in the good old days when the student with a car was a man who had had it given to him and could afford the fifteen dollar rental fee: an allowance and a successful father were handy things to have . . . Derek L. O'Donoghue...