Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come true. Last week, with the dam a third completed, the President turned to TVA Chairman Arthur E. Morgan to exult: "It's great stuff, isn't it!" Dr. Morgan remarked that the lake behind the dam will have an 800-mi. shoreline. "If we start to rent cottage sites along the shoreline we'll make a fortune," joshed the President. Down the bluff they drove to see some workers, whom President Roosevelt addressed as future "veterans" in a "new kind of war-a war to improve the conditions of millions of our American people...
...Court should hold against the Government the whole economic structure of the country would be badly rent. Many a corporation would go bankrupt and the U. S. Government would find its debt increased by two-thirds. But the likelihood of the Supreme Court denying the validity of the gold contract law is considered relatively remote inasmuch as the Constitution specifically gives Congress the power to "coin money, regulate the value thereof...
Bargains are also available in private cars, of which Pullman has 16 in commission, five laid up. It still costs $75 per day with a minimum of $200 to indulge in that most luxurious form of land travel. But it used to be necessary to pay the full rent for the time the empty car spent on the return trip. Now the return charge is only one-half. The railroad charge has also been cut from 25 full fares...
...season, excluding the heavy week-end trade from normally stay-at-home gold-bloc countries like France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland. Visiting U. S. tourists remained twice as long as in previous years. Despite rate reductions to accommodate dollar travelers, the Savoy in London took in 35% more from room rent than...
...been said vaged, and the crime thereby disclose Gold Eagle tries to reason, but failling that he invokes the Deity to descend upon on this wayward Absalom. At the dramatic moment, Heaven responds with a beautifully-handled earthquake, in which father and son perish as the Gold Eagle is rent in twain...