Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hear that, far from being rapacious moneygetters, the Brothers Rust, professed Socialists, were willing to forego profits rather than deliver a body blow to Southern labor. Holding 51% of the stock in their manufacturing company at Memphis, the Rusts offered marketing control of the picker to the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. The Union had too slim a purse to accept. The Brothers left the offer open...
...Angeles, when Tenant Richard Godfrey, 18, took his horse upstairs and stabled it for the night in his apartment, Tenant Mrs. Frances Jebb called police because she could not sleep with the horse "clomping around upstairs." Protested Godfrey: "I've never let Tuffie out of my sight since we left North Platte, Neb. together. The man we rented the apartment from said it would be all right to take Tuffie right upstairs. You see, he's a trick horse...
PREFACE TO THE PAST - James Branch Cabell - Me Bride ($2.50). Story of his literary life, mostly made up of revised prefaces to his collected works, by an ageing tenant of an ivory tower...
...Mart management estimates, the Mart attracted 235,000 buyers who spent $216,000,000-a 22% increase over 1934 purchases. The Mart has begun to show an operating profit, though it has yet to make an appreciable return on its investment. Marshall Field (as manufacturer) is its own best tenant, occupying some 1,290,000 sq. ft. The other 550 tenants occupy the same footage, leaving some 600,000 sq. ft. still vacant. Space rents at about $1.50 a sq. ft., so last year Marshall Field took in about $2,000,000 in rentals...
...Otis Moore to find how things were going on the 2,500-acre farm which the President bought while convalescing at Warm Springs in 1925 (TIME, Dec. 10). Manager Moore, father of five, reported the best crops in years, said the farm's two white and five Negro tenant families looked forward to a reasonably comfortable winter. The farm, which directly adjoins a New Deal homestead project, has never paid its own way, but this year Manager Moore thought that it might even show a profit. Most of the farm's crops go to feed its 130 cattle...