Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John has a car, a team and other livestock of his own, and of course I have guilts and dishes. Mother will give me some hens and a few pieces of furniture, too. Do you think we have enough to start farming in March? We'll rent at first, of course. We know we'd have more money saved if each of us worked a few more years, but we're tired of waiting. Please tell me just what you think...
...company pany receives from the P. 0. is not enough to provide the $135,000 annual addition to the payroll that shorter hours would entail. In place of the present contract the company suggests the P. 0. take over the system, pay it rent, "considerably less than $10,000 a mile." Last week's deadline, when the company threatened to quit, came and passed. The P. 0., which has the company under contract for another six months, is confident that it can make a better deal, sat tight, said "the tubes are operating as usual, according to contract...
...Jacob Berman, 52, a native of Minsk, Russia, had for three months given shelter, firewood, candles to two tenants in his condemned three-room flat, at rental of 5? per day. When he developed a sore foot and was unable to go out for wood, they refused to pay rent. Final compromise: the tenants agreed to bring their landlord food, firewood, candles in return for free lodging...
Those who think of authors as being rent-free tenants of an ivory tower might be surprised at the list of well-known U. S. writers who have been glad to get on the WPA payroll: Poet Conrad Aiken, for example, who wrote the memorable description of Deerfield, Mass, in the Massachusetts State guide. Idaho director was impassioned, temperamental Novelist Vardis Fisher (In Tragic Life) who rushed out the 431-page Idaho guide ahead of all rivals, promptly started work on a comprehensive Idaho Encyclopedia, scheduled for publication this spring. For Louisiana the director was Novelist Lyle Saxon (Children...
...Progress, the Administration Building is showily modern, as apparently will be most of some 350 other projected buildings which eventually will jam the site's 1,200 acres. Most of the New York Fair's space has already been let and last week Japan contracted to rent 10,000 sq. ft., Russia 110,000 and Hungary 36,000. Virtually all nations are expected. Attendance is estimated at 40,000,000 first year, 24,000,000 the second. When it is all over and the debentures have been paid off, President Whalen and associates expect to have a surplus...