Word: rente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four tons of Spratt's dog food, a sop of wheat, meat, bone dust, and water. Foley for his order, Spratt's for their larder, between them pocketed a large slice of the 875.000 laid out by the Club. Other major expenses: $20,000 each for rent of the Garden and for prizes...
...average American, with an income ranging from $400 to $2500 a year, must necessarily subject almost all his expenditures to the sales tax through local expenditures, he explained. The rich man avoids the tax by outside purchases. He pays no tax on money spent for rent or travel, or on such portion of his income which he does not spend...
...years ago a young sculptor named Michael Francis Lantz made himself a "very satisfactory" studio in New Rochelle, N. Y. He built a skylight into an abandoned pumping station, for which he paid $10 rent a month. Last week Sculptor Lantz was afraid his rent was going to be raised, because he had just won the biggest commission ever awarded by the Treasury Department's Section of Painting & Sculpture -$45,600 for two heroic stone figures to be placed on the terrace of Washington's new "Apex" building, into which the Federal Trade Commission will move...
...early settlers as Astor, Wendell, Goelet and Rhinelander, who, the Federal Theatre dramatists fervently proclaim, first grabbed the land and have snugly sat on it ever since. Less through their own foresight than through the industry of the masses, their land increased in value. And the masses got higher rent bills, housing that ran rapidly ramshackle...
What's to be done about all this? the Little Man wants to know. Rent strikes are shown. The tenants hope to force the landlords to repair the tenements and lower rents. But since the high price of building materials forces landlords to raise rents, what is the solution? More housing projects, says the Voice...