Word: renters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Lenihan said she did not want to appear "sentimental" about fresh air and a baby, but stood on her renter's rights. The baby, not her child, is the son of her second cousin...
...morning last week bearing a large brown-paper bundle. All that day, going up and down, he kept the bundle beside him. Whenever a prosperous and goodnatured face appeared in the car, a face which Herman had seen often before and so might judge belonged to an office-renter in that huge office building, he modestly fished into the bundle, drew out a smaller bundle wrapped in reddest tissue paper and tendered it, with winning humility, to the chosen passenger...
...buildings still outruns the supply, but prices are now so high that the demand may remain potential only and not effective, with the result that a disastrous collapse in the industry may occur. It is better for all parties that this should not happen; on the other hand, the renter must not be forgotten. As the speculative builder loses, the tenant will benefit. Rentals in most parts of the country are now very high, even compared with other prices, and business cannot proceed on a sound foundation until they rest on a lower level. Too much curtailment of speculative building...