Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trust needed new working capital, had to pay off bank loans. Mrs. McCormick endorsed an $11,000,000 bond issue which was further secured by $18,000,000 worth of securities, chiefly in Standard Oil of New Jersey.* When 15,000 tenants found themselves unable to pay rent she was unwilling to evict them. The Trust's income and securities both began to fall. The securities were sold to pay the bond issue. Bank loans were called. Mrs. McCormick met her obligations but in doing so had to place a $220,000 mortgage on her Lake Forest home...
...books, 10,000 phonograph records. Here he spends what time he can spare from his villa at Capri, exercises some feudal privileges thrown in with his lease, such as flying his own flag. Lately he acquired a wilder, remoter island off the coast of Scotland. Jethou is now for rent. Besides his playwriting and book-writing activities Author Mackenzie edits The Gramophone and Vox, a weekly dedicated to candid criticism of London radio programs...
...these improvements, though welcome, will not in themselves be sufficient to dispose of the financial problem. The most onerous burden, that of excessive rent in the Houses, remains. Doubling up on single suites, and the creation of an House Aid fund, has in some cases partially lessened the cost. But it is at best a paradoxical procedure, first to elevate the cost of rooms beyond the average student's means, and then attempt to relieve the burden by a kind of dole. In doing so, the University implicitly admits the contention that the price of rooms is too high...
...paid its rent last week. While a London art dealer was refusing $10,500 for a Rembrandt and a New York dealer was taking $20,000 for a Picasso, nearly 400 painters in Manhattan's Greenwich Village at the foot of Fifth Avenue, stood their paintings on the sidewalk and sold 1,700 of them in nine days for over $9,700, plus groceries, dental work, shaves, baby shoes. The dealer took a commission on the Picasso, but the $9,700 went direct from manufacturer to consumer...
Noted among the exhibitors was the comparative absence of corduroy pants and gypsy costumes. Most of the artists wore business suits, resembled salesmen or master plumbers, were willing & able to haggle over prices. Artist Porter sold his own pictures for $125, paid his back rent. Most of the pictures had their prices conspicuously tagged...