Word: rental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rental projects investigated, 437 had mortgages totaling $75.8 million more than costs. The excess amount of mortgage money was pocketed by builders as windfall profits. In the remaining 106 projects, costs to builders were $6,800,000 more than mortgages. However, according to the law, builders should have invested more than twice as much ($14.2 million) of their own money as they did. ¶ In FHA applications, many builders valued land at five times its actual cost; architect's fees were put as high as ten times their cost...
...package" shows that include cameras, circuit lines, scripts and actors. Customers have found the rates are often far below the cost of picking up travel expenses for an entire company's sales force. Last week's show, for example, cost G.M. several hundred thousand dollars (including rental of 50 giant, mobile projectors that Halpern bought for $500,000). But it was much cheaper-and far less trouble-than trying to bring all the guests to Flint...
Practically every country on the continent has facilities for car rental. Most require an initial deposit, and charge by the mileage run off. American drivers must carry with them a national driving license, an international driving permit (18 and older), international license plates, and an international registration certificate. The AAA can provide these before leaving for Europe...
...enable customers to answer both questions themselves, more and more U.S. galleries rent pictures out, at $1 to $80 a month. The galleries have discovered that more than 15% of all customers decide to buy what they have rented (galleries deduct the paid rental from the purchase price). Result: the art rental idea has taken hold both of commercial galleries and of museums interested in helping local artists, and is now sweeping the country. New York City, Buffalo, Minneapolis, Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara all boast rental services, and they are by no means all. Last...
...want to protect documents and other valuables from atom bombs, the Railway Express Agency has set up a service to seal them in bombproof, ventilated concrete vaults deep inside Iron Mountain, near Hudson, N.Y. Customers pack their possessions in cylindrical metal containers three inches in diameter, one foot long. Rental: $10 the first year, $5 thereafter...