Word: rente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union Hotel, only inn in town, was restricting its hospitality to the jurors and others officially connected with the case. Newshawks were advised to rent rooms elsewhere, and the town's housewives were preparing to reap a rich harvest from the influx of at least 1,000 guests. Already hearing the distant clink of coins, Flemington's town council deadlocked over the proposal to permit erection of street-side hot dog stands, a measure hotly challenged by the town's two restaurateurs...
...Jews only 175,000 live in Palestine.* In ratio to 750,000 Moslems they are a definite minority and many a Jew believes that Great Britain, despite past promises, intends to keep them a minority.? Furthermore Zionism's case is made no better for having long been rent not only by schisms but by schisms within schisms. Yet last week there was apparent a distinct trend toward peace & plenty in Zionism. Examples...
...Municipal Council of the new, white all-Jewish City Tel Aviv (pop.: 105,000) took to rent-fixing to curb speculation. In New York U. S. Zionist Louis Lipsky said: "Palestine is building itself up and has all the symptoms of a boom." Begging for more idealism in Zionism, he reported seeing in Tel Aviv and elsewhere the same Jewish "brokers, speculators and profiteers that used to be seen in The Bronx during the building boom...
Secretary Ickes, gathering newshawks around, began to talk further of his plan of "going the whole hog" on low-cost housing. He wanted one or two billion public dollars to erect houses and apartments to rent for around $5 a room. Said the Public Works Administrator testily...
...sagging runways, built on filled-in marshland, are so bumpy that airline pilots call it "Mount Newark." For lack of hangar space at Newark, TWA has agreed to move to Floyd Bennett by Jan.1. To hold other airlines at "Mount Newark," Mayor Ellenstein offered them free hangar rent for six months, no more municipal taxes on gas, oil, mail & passengers...