Word: rented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest crisis was triggered by a strike of 7,000 apartment-house service employees-doormen, elevator operators, handymen- against the landlords of 1,500 rent-controlled dwellings. The workers, whose average weekly pay is $85, sought an $18 raise. The owners responded by demanding repeal of the city's rent-control law, an anachronistic World War II anti-inflationary measure that makes no economic sense but is beloved by voters- and politicians- because it keeps many rents below market levels. Caught in the bind, a quarter of a million tenants found themselves without hot water, heat, elevator service, garbage...
Plungers & Brooms. Mayor John Lindsay, who pinned that name on New York City, tried to restore the jollity by offering the hard-nosed landlords a 15% rent increase. As the garbage mounted higher to draw flies and rats, Lindsay declared a health emergency and ordered sanitation crews to launch a cleanup. At the same time, an irate mob of some 600 landlords stormed down to city hall carrying toilet plungers, brooms, mops and angry signs, such as one that read: "Dictator Lindsay makes New York City a concentration camp...
...week's end, Lindsay's pressure broke the impasse. The workers won their raise, some of the landlords will get rent increases and the tenants can now look forward to the city's next crisis wiser in the ways of garbage disposal and elevator operation...
...themselves that anyone not to a castle born might well envy. In effect, they have mastered the art of doing nothing-and doing it very well. Like the birds of the air, they undertake a seasonal migration over a most unrelenting course. In Paris, their primary base, they rent from the city a handsome villa on the edge of the Bois de Boulogne, where Charles de Gaulle lived as Premier just after World War II. Now it is filled with the superb and costly bibelots that the duke inherited from his ancestors. For weekends and warm weather, the Windsors have...
...rock-'n'-roll radio stations, brags that its main office is near "the grooviest shops in town." Competing New England Mutual Life Insurance will pay an employee $25 for persuading a friend to join the company, another $75 if the friend stays for a year. Avis rent-a-car uses prime-time television to advertise for car washers...