Word: rental
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...shanter and tartan skirt will pick him up in a station wagon, drive him down the road a stretch, and hand him a key. The key is for one of Thrifty Rent-A-Car System's 1962 or 1963 model autos, and the net rental is about 20% below the rates charged by Hertz, Avis or National, the Big Three of the billion-dollar-a-year U.S. auto rental business...
Last week, with the elections out of the way and a new Congress elected, the President finally delivered that stroke of the pen. After the long wait, it was anticlimactic. Kennedy's order bars "discrimination because of race, color, creed or national origin" in the "sale, leasing, rental or other disposition" of housing 1) owned or operated by the Federal Government, 2) built with the aid of federal grants or loans, or 3) financed by FHA or other federal mortgage guarantee programs. That leaves some big gaps. The provisions with teeth do not apply to housing built before...
...good wheeler-dealer always does, Milner knew what he was going to do with his profits before he got them. With the proceeds of the real estate deal, he bought 25% of National Car Rental System, a lagging third to Hertz and Avis, which last week went public after 15 years as a federation of independent dealers. Now, with Milner as chairman, National intends to convert most of its 477 stations across the U.S. into franchised operations. It also plans to open at least 100 new stations in a bid for a bigger share of the billion-dollar-a-year...
...small and medium-sized businesses, the 1440 operates with a series of inexpensive and interchangeable 14-in. disks that permit it to store hundreds of millions of facts and to perform a wide variety of sophisticated calculations, including those involved in inventory control and profit and loss analysis. Rental: about $2,600 a month, 40% below the smallest business computer previously manufactured...
With so many Englishmen eager to rent, more than a hundred companies have gone into television rentals. But because sets turn no profit until they have been rented for at least a year, large capital is required and 90% of the business is handled by six big firms. Largest of all is the pioneer in the field, Radio Rentals Ltd. Founded 32 years ago by Chairman Percy Perring-Thoms as a one-shop operation renting radios for 35? a week, Radio Rentals expanded into television just before World War II. Today the company has 750,000 subscribers and 310 sales...