Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prostitute, were illiterate. French-Canadian mill hands, the father an alcoholic, the mother notoriously immoral. Fleur's first affair, when 11, was with the father of her mother's bastard. The family lived in squalid poverty, were chased from hovel to hovel, sometimes for not paying rent, sometimes for debauching the neighborhood. Fleur's adolescent peccadillos took place in cellars. Later she became a common street walker...
...Washington. Brother-in-law's name was John Wilshear. He had been treasurer of a Brooklyn shoe company. When it shut down several months ago he went to Washington and into "training to take charge of the leather section of NRA." Rent with internal politics, NRA headquarters began to buzz with rumors of nepotism...
...less than $3,000 and make it up on the holders of more valuable property. His inheritance tax would take 50% of any personal bequest over $50,000, 50% of any estate over $250,000. But his greatest project was for the unemployed. He would have the State rent or buy land and inactive factories, establish colonies of unemployed, feed, clothe and house them with the products of one another's labor until they became so happy that all other Californias envied them...
...found his plan's hung up. The campaign for new building was postponed to concentrate on modernization. Last week Alma McCrum, a Washington insurance agent, marched into a bank, signed a note, and as flashlights flickered, was given $1,200 to remodel the second floor of her home and rent it as an apartment. The housing drive...
More than two months ago Secretary Wallace mobilized his Agricultural Adjustment Administration to fight Drought. Gallantly AAA waged its battle, paying farmers rent for dust-dry fields, allowing them to use Government-rented acreage to grow forage, buying more than 1,500,000 head of starving cattle...