Word: tenant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tenants have tiny, scabrous stone cottages, with squealing pigs on the first floor and families of six to ten in the single room above. Most suffer from malaria. Each tenant tills up to 15 hectares, pays roughly one-third of his income in rental. The average wheat crop is about four bushels per hectare (the U.S. average is 45 bushels). The soil is badly eroded. The tenants have never heard of insecticides; few know of any fertilizer other than manure, which they rarely use. They cannot afford plows; instead they hammer at the wretched soil with picks...
...Truman doghouse last summer for his pro-Eisenhower antics, was out again and sniffing the friendly presidential air for the first time in months. He sat pleased and smiling at Harry Truman's own table. New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, another doghouse tenant in pre-convention days, also had slipped back into the family. Ailing Les Biffle, Senate Secretary and a pal of many birthdays' standing, left his bed at the Bethesda Naval Hospital just to be there...
...present federal controls include "hardship clauses," especially written to let the landlord secure rent-hikes if he can show that his income is seriously falling relative to his costs. More than that, for the last few years real-estate operators have been using leases as a very effective anti-tenant weapon, keeping people paying on an insecure month-to-month basis, unless they agree to rent rises...
Chipp, "The Gentleman's Tailor," at 73 1/2 Mt. Auburn st., may be evicted Tuesday in favor of a higher paying prospective tenant according to Jonas Arnold, the manager. He will take the case to court, and, in the event of a loss, will move his haberdashery to his other Cambridge store, Tweeds Ltd. at 33 Brattle...
...Tenant. What lent some authority to the story was the fact that the army had already installed its watchdog in the Casa Rosada. Just down the hall from Perón's office, in the space recently vacated by the fallen Economic Czar Miguel Miranda, sat trim, cheerful Colonel Enrique P. González. A bitter and outspoken foe of Evita, he had been presidential secretary in the regime of Pedro Ramirez, who was overthrown by Perón in 1944 for planning to break relations with the Axis. González bore the brand-new title of Immigration...