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Word: rental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have no income tax, no public debt and a remarkably low crime rate: one murder in 30 years. At the age of 16, every male Tongan gets eight acres of land, for which he pays an annual tax of about $7 U.S. to the Tongan government and a token rental to his chief. Tonga has its own passports, its own currency and its own postal system (including the station, famed among philatelists, of "Tin Can Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TONGA: A Royal Birthday | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

First step was the purchase by Junto of the Bethpage Realty Corp., which owned the 4,028 rental houses and was, in turn, owned by Levitt and his brother Alfred S. The price: $5,150,000 with $1,500,000 as down payment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Whence Comes the Dew? | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

...decree, Eastman had agreed to end its film deal with Technicolor.) No longer will film producers be required to buy all of Technicolor's 25 services (e.g., printing, processing) in order to get any one service. Within a year, at least two Technicolor cameras will be available for rental with no strings attached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Picture, Mar. 13, 1950 | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

...years ago," she said as she finished cleaning the white-enameled spittoon beside the archbishop's throne. "I was the bride of Federico Fritscher, bell-ringer and caretaker of the cathedral. The pay was small but there were tips from the tourists, and here we paid no rental. With our seven children we were poor but happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lady Bellringer | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

They believe that it is becoming progressively less difficult for married students to locate quarters outside University control and that rental housing conditions will continue to improve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Housing Projects Curtailed As Married Vets Decrease | 2/9/1950 | See Source »

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