Word: renters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, Rootes Motors, Inc. rented out its British-made Hillman autos for as long as two weeks with gas and oil free (minimum weekly charge: $65) and promised to deduct rental payments if the renter bought the car ($1,795). Like other British automakers, Rootes also offered tourists the chance to pay for a car in the U.S., pick it up and drive it in England this summer, and have it shipped back free of charge...
...renter, but I say the renters should be sufficiently grounded in equity to consent to give their landlords that 5% [difference] without bellyaching...
...Renter's Slant...
...always work according to plan. As long as no one has enough money to buy everything he wants, then he can buy one thing only by not buying something else. Thus, if rents jump up 35% (as they have in many places) the hard fact is that the renter will not be able to buy something else. Prices of many items were certain to rise. But prices of other items may drop...
...Julius Renter's monopoly, fattening on low cable rates, brought him power, fortune, a baronetcy from his native Germany. His son's suicide in 1915 ended the dynasty and brought Reuters up against a crisis. While it wobbled, shrewd, sparrowlike Roderick Jones, a Reuter man from South Africa, stepped in and bought up the shares. As Britain's propaganda minister in World War I, he won a knighthood, saw that his agency toed the empire line...