Word: tenant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Careful Exceptions. Before 1945, half of Japan's farms were tenant-operated and owner-dominated. Now the tenant figure is only 13%. The land has been split up: with a few careful exceptions, nobody can own more than six acres or rent out more than three. Land reform halted Communism's appeal to Japanese farmers. As landowners they feel that they are small, separate, independent entrepreneurs. They dislike the mere thought of Russian collectives, which many of them saw as Soviet prisoners...
...only took 20 minutes to pick the jury for the trial of the first defendant, a 22-year-old tenant farmer named William ("Spud") Howell. Then Amy was put on the stand. She told how she and Big Duck and their baby and two cousins were on their way home in their car at night and how a gang of men "with white stuff on them" and "pistol guns" had stopped their car, and shot Robert Mallard dead...
...impoverished tenant farmer, he put himself through Illinois Wesleyan by stoking furnaces and waiting on table, emerged in 1914 with a law degree and letters in football, baseball and basketball. After World War I, in which he rose from private to lieutenant, he went back to his law office and began the long haul up through the Illinois political machine. Making his first bid for the Senate in 1938, he had to buck Chicago's high-riding Kelly-Nash machine to win the nomination. When he came up for re-elec tion in 1944 he had so won over...
...corrected floor space," the tenant multiplied his "useful floor space" by three sets of coefficients representing light, sunshine and view. He allowed 1.0 for a well-lit room, but "if half of its surface is in the shadow for a substantial part of the day," he scaled it down to .8. If he had a room overlooking a park or "a remarkable panorama," he charged himself 1.1, but reduced it if he could see only "a wide street or court or a stretch of grass at least 15 meters wide and without obstructions [not counting trees]." For a really super...
With his "corrected floor space" settled, the tenant turned to Schedule III and added up an arbitrary amount of floor space for "facilities and conveniences." A cold-water faucet in the hallway rated .25 square meters. Private flush toilets rated four square meters, non-flushing toilets only two. Adding up the "corrected" square meters of the three schedules and multiplying the sum by the fixed charge per meter, he arrived at his monthly rent...