Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went to pot. He had to sell his hogs for practically nothing. When the subject of patriotism came up at school, his son James, 14, said the hell with the U. S. and The Star-Spangled Banner. The loan company foreclosed, and the Renshaws had to pay rent to keep on living on their own farm. Mrs. Renshaw broke her collarbone, and Doris, 12, and Iris, 11, had to do all the housework and tend the chickens...
...North German Lloyd and Hamburg American Lines when the Nazis lumped them under the same directorate in 1933. Herr Helfferich urged that the Government aid stagnant German export-import firms by permitting them to discharge superfluous employes (illegal under the Nazi job-protection laws); by letting them use "rent free" the Government warehouses in which German clogged exports are now piling up; and by directly providing "necessary capital to keep them afloat." If all this is done, "then we need not fear for our foreign trade," concluded Economist Helfferich. "The German trader may, with his inherent acumen, find new business...
...wrath. Wrote Nikolai Virta in Pravda (from Terijoki, where Russia has set up its joke People's Government): "When our tired men wanted to drink, they found all the village wells filled with earth. . . . Hardly had the first Red fighter set foot on Finnish soil when an explosion rent the air-a mine! Mines are everywhere." Even the Russian soldiers were indignant. Writer Virta quoted one as saying: "What cads! . . . They are masters of foul play. How well they make such nastiness...
...busy airport, New York City offered a 558-acre airdrome, of which 357 acres were moved from nearby Riker's Island; six huge hangars, each large enough to house a football gridiron with room for bleachers, six restaurants, one with cocktail lounge and nightclub; offices for rent by the day to busy executives (the most expensive, $75 a day); a sound-proofed engine test building; the finest seaplane terminal in the world where trans-Atlantic planes can dock in the roughest weather. Clear of approach obstructions to jangle the nerves of pilots, the field also has many a piece...
...Sullivan says our book sales are not sufficient to cover our expenses. This is quite true. Much of our income has been derived from the motion pictures and lectures the Bookshop has sponsored. This is the source of Mr. Sullivan's "Soviet gold." He says we pay too high rent. This is also true, and as a result the Bookshop is going to move at the end of the month to a less expensive location...