Word: rente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Children, by housing the waifs. He financed two Central Park playgrounds, and gave New York State a 1,500-acre park ground on Long Island. And only a few days before he was seen "bounding," he had returned from a European study trip with plans for sanitary, low-rent, "model" tenements, such as the Rockefellers and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. have planned for New York poor...
...promising dip of his long fishpole caused his eyes to sparkle momentarily; occasionally an intrepid fly was rewarded with an energetic slap. . . . Occasionallv, too, he shot a glance of stern disapproval across the wharf, where the Courtney children-Martha, four, and Jane, six-romped carelessly. Suddenly, simultaneous shrieks rent the air, mingling with the splash of water. Two struggling figures swept beneath the projecting fishpole. The boy jumped. Seizing one girl by the hair, setting his teeth into the dress of the other, he floated both until help came in the form of a rowboat. When the distracted Courtneys...
...compensate the building trades-he pays $17,000 in interest for the first year. This is practically 19% on the $90,000 he actually gets. The second year, and thereafter, he pays $7,000 interest on the $90,000, or 7.7%. Then, when his building is completed and in rent, he is indeed fortunate if his entire income from it is sufficient to pay interest, tax, salary, and upkeep items...
...everyone knows, a succession of revolts has rent and impoverished Portugal since the "original revolution" of October 5, 1910, resulted in the overthrow of King Manuel II and the setting up of a Republic. General da Costa seized the Government from Dictator-Commander Cabecadas who had overthrown President Machada (TIME, June...
Drivurself. By establishing the Hertz Drivurself Corp.( subsidiary of G. M. C.'s Yellow Truck & Coach Mfg. Co.) to rent motors to the public, G. M. C. becomes an enormous (and profitmaking) consumer of its own cars and accessories. The idea deserves the $10,000,000 investment...