Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight cities, for 15 more low-rent rehousing projects, last week went $32,632,000 more of the $800,000,000 which U. S. Housing Authority is authorized to lend to local housing authorities. This brought total USHA loans to $265,054,000; and total commitments (including rent-reducing contributions) to $576,104,000. Thus did Administrator Nathan Straus celebrate the first anniversary of his big New Deal program of sheltering the worst-housed, lowest-income portion of the populace. His estimate of the families thus far provided for by USHA...
...contractor, he put up a one-story structure bounding three sides of a rectangle with a sunken grass court (Powell & Morgan, architects). Ten living units of four rooms & bath each have individual front doors opening in this court. Each unit has its own heating plant. There are no garages. Rent: $25 per month per unit, or $6.25 per room...
...directors voted to pay out the remainder. Thus, to each of 125 stockholders who own the road's 6,000 shares (par: $50) went an 8% dividend, about the amount they always have received and will receive as long as the Central pays its rent...
With respect to dictatory autocracy and New Deal democracy, it is not always clear where "the parson leaves off and the pew-rent begins" ; I beg to contribute for current circulation: "ipsedictatorial" (or-"dictatory") and "demautocratic" (or -"cracy...
...answered most Dewey questions with a bright "That's right." He described his association with the racket's murdered boss, Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, and with Jimmy Hines. At 27. said Dixie, he had five lawyers working for him and paid $7,500 a year in office rent. He described paying off Hines, in $500 and $1,000 chunks, himself and through intermediaries, told how Hines asked Tammany Magistrates Francis Erwin and Hulon Capshaw to dismiss policy cases...