Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...original shock was the gloomy contrast of his now flaccid purse with the sleek one he formerly possessed prior to paying his first term bill. A bill which included the outrageous addition of rent for the Greek Common Room in Adams House of which he has been the sole occupant during the current season. However the latest and by far the most serious situation, as it is entirely a matter of the Vagabond's personal cosmology, centers in and about the anti-macassar atmosphere of Grays 18, home of history and literature. The collegiate play-boy has at last...
...dollar. It showed that since December 1929 the U. S. cost of living has dropped 21.1% by an average weighted to take into account all major items of expenditure in their proportionate amount. For the past year alone food was off 20%, household furnishings 9.6%, clothing 8.1%, rent 5.1%, fuel 4.3%. Detroit showed a 12.7% drop, Kansas City 5.6%, New York 8.5%, Atlanta 8.9%, Birmingham 12.8%, Philadelphia 8.1%, St. Louis 10.2%, Boston 9.8%, Chicago 10.2%, Cleveland 10.9%, San Francisco...
...paid out of hotel operations, before interest on the $11,000,000 leasehold bonds. Its cost was estimated at about $19,000,000; the furnishings are thought to have come to $8,500,000. The 26-year-11-month lease contains two 21-year renewal provisions. The rent will average about $1,500,000 a year, and is an operating charge which ranks ahead of bond interest. Perhaps because of this knowledge the Waldorf-Astoria leasehold bonds were selling last week at 49? on the dollar...
Adoption of the single tax would do away with the profits which come from land appreciation and are known as unearned increment or economic rent. An able critic of the single tax has objected that the plan takes for granted a continual increase in land values, that if the State takes the profits of increases it must also shoulder the losses from decrease...
...John Gellatly went to court in Manhattan. She was being sued for $660 in back rent. Her estranged husband, a 78-year-old dandy in a blue jacket, flowing red tie and handlebar mustaches, was also present. He is the John Gellatly from whom in 1929 Congress accepted a $4,000,000 art collection-Whistler, La Farge, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, George Inness, John Noble, J. Alden Weir, a fine collection of porcelains and 16th Century jewelry-for the Smithsonian Institution's National Gallery. He used to keep his collection,in a private gallery in Manhattan's arty...