Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hypothesis upon which the George philosophy was created is that land and the profits from it belong to all living people equally. He advocated the State's ownership of land (exclusive of improvements on it). Rent would be paid in proportion to the land's value, and this rent (or single tax) would be sufficient to abolish all other taxes...
...ready to begin selling its services in Manhattan last week. But New York Telephone Co. refused to lease its wires, said it was too big an order. Wired Music, it claimed, "has possibilities of extending to many thousands" of circuits; the company's policy has been to rent out only a part of its spare facilities. Temporarily balked, Wired Music appealed to the New York State Public Service Commission. Decision was that since New York Telephone Co. already leases wires, whether "spare" or not, to 200 broadcasting studios, it must do the same for Wired Music, whose request...
...year-old New Jersey State Senator, married, father of three, sat down and started drinking gin with a Miss Ruth Jayne Cranmer, whom he was maintaining in a Manhattan apartment. After their fourth bottle of gin, they fell to quarreling about Miss Cranmer's allowance and apartment rent which seemed too expensive to Senator Yates. Later still Senator Yates was shot in the abdomen. Taken to a hospital, his condition was so serious that police were unable to question him. Miss Cranmer was arrested, said she was not sure who fired the shot. When checks were found...
Scotland, where the sport is best organized, has some 3,000 heather-covered, grouse-infested moors for rent. In prosperous years the gross income from rents has run to $7,500,000. Payments to lodge keepers, beaters and handy men total about the same. An average sized moor costs a hunter all told about $5,000 a month for the season. That is, in Scotland. If he merely wants grouse and is willing to forego social eéclat, he may go on to the Orkneys. There he may rent a stand for as little as $300 cash...
...State Supreme Court had denied Governor Henry Stewart Caulfield the power to remove him from office. Larry Brunk was accused of collecting interest on State funds deposited in the now defunct Bank of Aurora in his home town. These collections, according to the charge, went into a "Brunk Rent Account" from which the State Treasurer's private indebtedness to the bank was gradually liquidated. Another charge was that Brunk got a $10,000 gift from a Chicago bond house for authorizing one of its issues on a St. Louis apartment house as collateral for State deposits. The Brunk defense...