Word: rented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drive. Then he surveys the whole scene and realizes that he is not the master of a blessed thing he surveys. The tents, the chairs, the band, the dance floor, the artificial grass, the champagne fountain, the cummerbund, the T-Bird. the mink, the dress are all rented. Only the guests, the wife, and the bill are real. But in Hollywood, and all over the U.S., more and more people are leading the You-Rent-It life...
...biggest outfits in the booming renting business is United Rent-All Corp. of Lincoln, Neb., which was started by Unemployed Railroad Worker D. R. Patton in 1947. Today, Patton's company sells franchises to more than 300 dealers, who buy their equipment from United. The Hertz car-rental firm last year got into the act with three Chicago stores, and more planned. These two companies, as well as scores of independent dealers, can supply customers with anything from antique candelabra to concrete mixers...
Subways. While many articles are rented for the purpose of borrowing status (a mink stole, from Manhattan's Consolidated Laundries for $35 a night; a Rolls-Royce, from Buckingham Livery for $9 an hour) or showing off (an elephant, from Fred Birkner for $500 a day), most users rent things that they can afford but require only for a short time. Thus it makes sense for the home gardener to rent the electric hedge trimmers that he needs only three times a year ($1.50 for a few hours), or for the host to rent five dozen highball glasses...
...Thousand Partners. The Empire State deal is typical of Lawrence Wien's style of operating on high-rent turf around the country. Columbia-educated, Wien got into commercial real estate in 1949 when he gathered a small group of investors to buy a two-story building for $165,000. Broker on the deal was Harry B. Helmsley, chief of the Manhattan broker-management firm of Helmsley-Spear. Wien and Helmsley have been allies ever since, have parlayed their original venture into a $600 million real estate empire that includes New York's plush Plaza hotel and the more...
...circulate freely throughout the city ("The principle of freedom of movement is basic to the agreements regarding Berlin"). In the past, Russian replies to such protests have sometimes been delayed for weeks. This time, the only immediate reply was indirect: the East Germans ordered all commuters to pay their rent in West rather than East German marks, which means a fivefold increase in rent...