Word: rente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...123rd St. Contracts for its foundation excavations were let last week. It will spire upward for 800 ft-"8 ft. more than the Woolworth Building"; will contain on the ground floor an undenominational church and a dining room seating 2,000, above 4,500 hotel rooms which will rent for not more than $21 weekly, and on its top (65th) story a hospital. Within it drinking and smoking, and possibly Sunday journals, will be forbidden. Ten percent of its earnings will go to support a medical mission at Lake Victoria Nyanza, in Africa. The builder is a realtor named Oscar...
...trust deed, without personal liability. Thus the company would reduce its capital liabilities by 5 millions, would get 4 millions in cash and a credit of 12 millions. Mr. Rosenwald would own the real estate; the company would have a tenure of at least 20 years, paying in rent 7% on only the 4 millions...
...maintenance ($369,737 came forth in 1925). Ten millions would be necessary to keep ahead of costs and insure expansion. Already some field work had perforce been abandoned; reports of costly expeditions had not been printed; endowment income had had to be diverted from scientific ends to meet salaries, rent; the trustees had had to contribute $51,000 to balance the books without a deficit. New collections, though given, require new attendants to care for them. Gifts of land from New York City require building funds. Privately-financed expeditions bring new throngs of spectators, letter-writers, question-askers...
...first Mr. George pleaded for this unemployment panacea in its original form: 1) "Resumption of ownership" by the Government of all arable land; 2) the former landlords to be reimbursed by guaranteed sums equivalent to their present rent; 3) unemployed city and country laborers to be drawn into the small farmer class as "cultivating tenants" of the Government...
...longer able to command the state and retinue which he has maintained until very recently. Gifts and contributions from wealthy Turkish sympathizers still enable him to keep up a modest villa, but it is alleged that a few weeks ago he was nearly evicted for nonpayment of rent, and it is said that he has been obliged to dispense with even the German governess who formerly attended his youngest...