Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then lease the farm land thus left idle at an average of $3 per acre per year, thereby compensating the producer for accepting his quota; let the Government collect a processing tax not upon individual products but upon all agricultural commodities to raise the $200,000,000 necessary to rent fallow fields...
...Metropolitan's finances are run this way: The holders of the 35 boxes own the proud, antiquated house. They are paid nominally $67,000 a year rent by the producing company. In turn, taxes and insurance amount to approximately $4,500 annually for each box, a rate of about $7 on each chair for each & every performance...
Aware that Countess Tolstoy, youngest daughter of the late great Russian Novelist Count Leo Tolstoy, had been occupying the Newtown Square farm (rent free) for about a year, Philadelphia editors printed the letter in full. Excerpts...
...with splendid success and enthusiasm from the 6,5 residents. The cost is but $5 per week for board & room. Although it was necessary to provide a somewhat larger budget for the food for the men it was possible to reduce j the price of room rent for them on account of the I type of hall used. A woman does the cooking while all other work in the hall is done...
...hotel's butcher called to collect what was due him, $100. The drummer's money being handy, the cashier paid with that. The butcher went on down the street, paid his rent, $100. The landlord owed his lawyer $100. The lawyer owed the doctor. The doctor owed the hotel $100. Before dark the same $100 bill was back in the hotel's safe. In came the drummer...