Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conservatives who cannot sleep over the "preposterous" and "dangerous" debt of the United States should find a mild form of Ovaltine in the fact that our per capita debt is considerably less than half that of the British. Another illuminating observation is the discovery of the high cost of rent necessary to maintain the new houses in the Administration's "slum clearance" program. As much as $7 per month per room with the government carrying almost half of the construction cost is required to give the city-dweller minimum comfort according to the American standard of living...
...millionaire uncle, a retired play producer named Bath, to join them. The Frankensteens were glad of it. Andrews' uncle took them to roadhouses, bought them champagne, brought toys to their children. So generous was he that their vacation cost the two young friends hardly a cent except for rent and food...
...Road's tortuous history, those concerning its scenery are the most prodigious and painful. Director Reinhardt and Producer Weisgal originally conceived their show as occupying its own specially constructed tabernacle with a cast of 3,000. This paranoiac aspiration did not quite come true, but Mr. Weisgal did rent from the Scottish Rite the vast old Manhattan Opera House around the corner from the Pennsylvania Station. Mr. Bel Geddes began to tear out the theatre's interior, a cast of 220 began rehearsing and the premiere was set for Dec. 23, 1935. First thing that happened was that...
...Street of the Fishing Cat is only two paces wide, 30 paces long, with four houses on each side, an obscure Paris cranny favored by refugees and exiles because the rent is low. There, in 1920, the Barabas family from Hungary found refuge, while Papa Barabas tried to find work in his trade as a furrier. They were an ambitious, warmhearted, restless outfit. Anna, the oldest girl, was emotional, observant, quick to understand other people's troubles but a little helpless about helping them as she wanted to. She took care of the house, did the marketing, while...
...sent her photographs and plans of residences he might rent. It was also definite that His Royal Highness made a number of calls to England and expressed regret to certain loyal Gentlemen of the Palace and others to whom in his agitated state of mind he used harsh words during the crisis. It was not a matter of apology or forgiveness, but of right royal regret...