Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insurance applies not only to small houses (mortgaged for not more than $16,000), but also to large apartment house developments with valuations running up to $10,000,000. But these large apartments must rent at low cost ($10 to $15 a room), must be "limited dividend" operations with the promoter restricting himself to a 6% profit. Most conspicuous example of FHA insurance on a large scale is a Joseph P. Day Brooklyn development (TIME, April 15), on which New York Life Insurance Co. holds a $5,000,000 insured mortgage. Applications for mortgage insurance on large apartments have thus...
...wouldn't be so bad if Cambridge were an ordinary city, but it isn't. Living expenses are twice as high here as in Belmont, an average suburb. And whereas one may live modestly in New York for a monthly rent of $45, here in this comparatively tiny village there is no approach to such economy. The causes are two. First, there are the exceptionally high taxes. Second, there is the fact that so many houses and apartments of approximately the same standard are demanded that the owners are able to hold out for exorbitant prices...
...Moon and the Stars peep in now and then? May the Vagabond have Alice and Bill the Lizard and the Walrus and the Hatter and anyone else he wishes? Will he, good Master, be free and allowed to journey his own way? And there'll be no rent, dear Sir? Alas! Alas...
...Communists, who mortally hate the A. F. of L.'s leadership as a parcel of boss grafters and labor racketeers, have long waited for the rent which would destroy the Federation's whole factional fabric. Last week no major rent appeared but there was a significant...
Thin division of the room rent dollar was commuted by determining what you centage of the total receipts from YORD was spent for each item. This you centage equals the number of connection spend from each dollar a students pays. Although subject to obvious inaccuracies, the division of the dollar on this basic in a fairly reliable indicator an to where the money goes...