Word: rente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Piteous Plight. The answer came from Cape Town, South Africa, where there arrived last week from London three potent officials of the Diamond Trust: Lieutenant Colonel Solomon Barnato Joel, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer and Sir Abe Bailey. Proceeding to the Ministry of Mines and Industries these gentlemen figuratively rent their garments. Cried millionaire Solomon B. Joel piteously: "Diamonds will become as common as artificial pearls if the present unrestricted output from 'independent' alluvial diggings continues. . . . Something must be done to alter the present situation. Why, the alluvial diggers are now actually selling more diamonds than the great producers...
...another. The cause: most of them work in the textile mills of Otis Co., making cotton suitings, awnings, denims, knit goods, stockings and cotton underwear. The company has been in Ware since 1835. Girls and boys go to work with their grandparents. Families live in its tenements. They rent company six-room cottages for $1.50 a week. Otis Co. has been Ware's maintenance and its culture. Last week company stockholders were planning to move their works to Alabama where "poor whites" work longer hours and for less money than at Ware. Yet factory work pays better than farming...
Occupants of a new block of municipal flats erected by the London County Council discovered upon moving in last week, that they can rent for sixpence a week (12c) a "garage" large enough to house the most portly "pram" (peram-bulator...
...dinner when a terrific rumbling, surging noise rent the air. A thousand windows crashed, and the building oscillated. . . . The floor reeled under my feet. All the lights failed. We expected momentarily the roof to fall and smother...
...high in quality and plentiful in quantity. To insure this industrial expansion, R. C. A. has just bought the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s (Bell System) Manhattan broadcasting station WEAF for $1,000,000 and organized the National Broadcasting Co. Inc. (M. H. Aylesworth, president). National Broadcasting will rent its station service for national advertising, including that of receiving set competitors...