Word: rente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last February concerned the question of how much the U. S. owes foreign nations to whom it has promised 100? gold dollars. This question has been a hot issue with the Republic of Panama to which the U. S. promised to pay 250,000 100? dollars per year as rent for the Canal Zone. In 1934 and again last February Panama indignantly rejected checks for 250,000 59? dollars. Last week, on the same day that the President sent his message to Congress, it was unofficially made known in Washington that the State Department had decided to honor the pledge...
...elevator installed in the Presidencia so that he and beauteous, curvesome Senora Arias could make the U. S. President comfortable when he came to dine. But until last week all Dr. Arias had got from his fellow ruler was 1) an offer of 59? dollars for Canal rent; 2) a Roosevelt order permitting the sale of liquor in the U. S. Canal Zone which thus deprived Dr. Arias' constituents of a profitable business...
...Arias' gratification at last week's victory was not tempered by the fact that the rent money will never get nearer Panama than Manhattan since the canal rent is pledged to pay U. S. holders of Panama bonds. President Arias has refused to follow Franklin Roosevelt in one respect: he has been a strict budget-balancer and the rent money will help even if it never reaches home. Lest, however, any U. S. citizen profit by his Government's keeping its word, Panama immediately demanded that its U. S. creditors accept 4% instead...
...technicalities, to $2,000,000 of TVA's expenditures. Although the law ordered TVA to establish its head office at Muscle Shoals and money was spent reconditioning offices there, Mr. McCarl found that TVA had moved its headquarters to Knoxville where it paid $36,000 a year rent. Then TVA leased telephone lines, hired cars, bought airplanes to keep in touch with Muscle Shoals. Although TVA owned 223 automobiles and light trucks, its bill for hired passenger cars averaged $8,000 a month. In one period 53 TVA-owned cars drove less than 1,000 miles while the hired...
Johnny Price lives in San Francisco and does nothing more tiring than clip the occasional coupon that enables him to pay room rent, drink and stand around on street corners. One day he meets up with a little old man, who makes a queerly indelible impression on him. Thereafter Johnny never knows when or where the little old man may appear; he begins to feel haunted. There is something terrible about the old man's eyes: he can stop a charging barkeep just by looking at him. Sadly troubled in mind, Johnny goes walking at night in Golden Gate...