Word: rente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will start buying idle outlying land from tax-ridden owners, paying them $1 a lot and giving them an option to repurchase at any time at the same price. The Authority will set up on the land four-room prefabricated houses which are to cost $900 apiece and rent to Fort Wayne's poor at $2.50 a week. In return for relieving slum conditions, the State makes F. W. H. A. land and buildings taxfree. WPA labor will put the houses together, clear the land of present slum buildings, if any. When any owner buys his land back, WPAsters...
...Museum announced with pride that it had acquired an Egyptian bronze statue of a cat for $14,400 from Manhattan Art Dealer Joseph Brummer. Same day, St. Louis newspapers carried a pathetic story about the eviction of a family of eight for failure to pay $15 a month rent. The conjunction of these news items proved too much for the editorial sense of the St. Louis Star-Times, which published an open letter to the cat informing it that its "visit" was ill-timed. Wrote the Star-Times...
...stage events with which the Festival wall close next month. Present besides High Priestesses Graham, Humphrey and Holm, High Priest Weidman, were portly, dachshund-toting Louis Horst, patriarch of the movement, prim N. Y. Times Dance Critic John Martin, its principal evangelist. While London's ballet world was rent in a grand écart, Bennington's modern dancers heaved together in a lusty assembl...
Carpenters, electricians, masons et al. are forever getting into rows over who should do what work. Last week U. S. Housing Administrator Nathan Straus, who hopes to assist State and local agencies in building thousands of low-rent homes, announced that U. S. H. A. has arranged with A. F. of L.'s construction unions to settle all such arguments in advance. In return for a guarantee that wages prevailing when a project is started shall be paid until the job is done, the unions agreed to postpone any jurisdictional strikes until the Housing Authority...
...wanted a business of his own. In December a Marshall Field & Co. advertisement of traveling bags piqued his curiosity; he found that plenty of people came to look, few to buy. Luggage, he decided, was too expensive to sell readily. He wondered why no one had thought of renting it. Visiting railroad and airline offices, steamship and travel bureaus, he planted an idea: if vacationists could skimp on luggage, perhaps they would splurge on trips. In partnership with 37-year-old Austin Wyman, who put up the money, he opened, as a side line, the first U. S. luggage renting...