Word: renting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barter. In El Paso, pleading guilty to stealing, forging, and cashing a Government check belonging to her tenant, Mrs. Jesus Rodarte Ramirez insisted that she was only collecting the rent...
...allowance ($3,600,000) from Washington, he met daily opposition from all sides. The Kremlin vetoed the plan to distribute free Coty lipsticks. President Eisenhower's doubts about the top-heavily modern art show (TIME, July 13) prompted some changes. The Russians haggled like capitalistic stockbrokers over the rent...
...initial sum of $7,000,000 and 24,000 tons of wheat, agreed to an annual $4,000,000 rental until 1960 and $1,000,000 a year after that for eleven years. Libya has now demanded ten times as much-a whopping $40 million a year-in rent for Wheelus, and more perks besides. The U.S. has countered with an offer...
...recent years Western Europe's trend has been increasingly conservative. Bitter over being out of power, the Socialist parties, too doctrinally dogmatic to fit in with the current prosperity, too inclined toward neutralism to fit in with the realities of the cold war, are now being rent by dispute. Since their economic doctrines no longer appeal, left-wingers among them have been agitating for a softer cold-war policy to win votes. They cry for banning the H-bomb, for disarmament, for disengagement, for deals with Russia...
...immediate beneficiaries: 1) William G. Barr, named to head the Office of Rent Stabilization in 1953, and sued for telling the press that his "first official act" would be to suspend two employees who had been mixed up in a manipula: tion of ORS funds; and 2) Admiral W. E. Howard Jr., who, as commanding officer of the Boston Naval Shipyard, reported to Congressmen-with copies to the press -that the shipyard would soon withdraw recognition of a union, and was sued by the union...