Word: rented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Critical legislation such as rent control (due to expire March 31) and ECA appropriations were tied up. Something had to give. At week's end, in an atmosphere of dull obstinacy, members came to a bitter showdown...
...House, too, a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats tirelessly pecked and burrowed away at Harry Truman's Fair Deal, item by item. Last week the item was rent control. The Administration wanted it extended until March 1951. Republicans argued instead for a wait-&-see extension to run only until July 1. Dixiecrat E. E. ("Goober") Cox of Georgia was blunter: "Continue controls for 90 days and then have the whole thing thrown out the window...
...blase Hollywood was impressed by the invitations from Houston. They were in gold, on white doeskin. For this week's opening of his $21 million Shamrock hotel, hustling Oilman Glenn McCarthy had requested the company of a trainload of movie and radio stars. He had the forethought to rent a Santa Fe Super Chief to carry his guests free to Texas and back. As a St. Patrick's Day touch, McCarthy had ordered 2,500 shamrocks flown over from Eire...
...Start. What the guests saw were 18 floors decorated in an eclectic style advertised as "the best of all periods." There were seven acres of grounds, a huge fan-shaped swimming pool, 500 paintings in the guest rooms, employees in 25 different uniforms, and three penthouse apartments that would rent furnished for $2,100 a month apiece (the rooms below began at $6 a night...
This is an old ruling that was dropped during the war, when substitutes could always be found. A student still won't have to pay extra rent if he leaves at mid-terms, or if a substitute takes his place in the room...