Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, D. C., there are more apartment dwellers per capita than in any other city. Rents dropped 8⅓% when Government wages were cut to that extent. Landlords are installing electrical refrigeration in place of giving a rent cut and few leases are being demanded. Vacancies run at 27%, big apartments go begging...
...Dallas many apartment dwellers have moved into the homes of friends and relatives. Vacancies in expensive apartments ($90 to $125) run as high as 40% despite rent reductions equally as big. Work continues on the city's big suburban development. Highland Park West, despite the fact that its backer, Hugh Prather, sold his $125,000 home and moved in with his partner & brother, Phil Prather...
...Woollcott entertained his public in The New Yorker last week with a description of a new painting in his bedroom, an autumn view of Sannois by Maurice Utrillo in his familiar, cool grey & white manner. News was the fact that Mr. Woollcott did not own the picture, but had rented it from Inventor John Van Nostrand Dorr-rent ($100 for four months) to go to the Greenwich House Music School. He added...
...another in its place. Perhaps it will work out that every three months a new painting will hang in that space on the same terms. I know I want to spend a few weeks with a Hopper. Has anyone got a good Monet which he would like to rent out? I must talk to Marie Harriman about a Walt Kuhn...
Unannounced Mayor McKee dropped in on the $19,000,000 Bronx Terminal Market. He found in this huge municipal building two grocers and two vegetable dealers paying a total rent of $26,000 per year. Not more than ten city employes were visibly at work. Back at City Hall he learned that the market's payroll and upkeep alone was costing the city $162,480 per year. Summoning his Commissioner of Markets, he told him that unless he remedied this "shocking condition," in two days, he would be ignominiously "fired." Two days later Tammany-backed William F. Dwyer was ousted...