Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dedicatory air meet had barely started when a howling thunderstorm broke, driving the crowd into nearby hangars and administration building, postponing the ceremonies. That disappointment was small, however, compared to the blow that fell next day, when all domestic airmail contracts were annulled. Shushan Airport's first big tenant was American Airways, which was expected to cancel its lease. Roared disappointed Col. Shushan: "New Orleans had just as well throw her field back into Lake Pontchartrain...
...crusts of the past. The Connellys, mother (Henrietta Crosman), son Will (Robert Young ) and Uncle Bob (Lionel Barrymore) occupy Connelly Hall but are so strapped that they can no longer get credit at the country store. A Northerner ("damn blue-bellied Yankee") moves in upon their acres as a tenant farmer, starts an experimental tobacco crop. On his death his daughter Joanna (Janet Gaynor) carries on. Young Will Connelly falls in love with her. Proud old Mrs. Connelly indignantly orders the girl off her place. Alter the usual to-do Will makes a stand, marries Joanna, turns the plantation from...
...fear is that several thousands of tenant farmers and share-croppers will be displaced and thrown into the ranks of the unemployed, with Federal or state or city governments forced to take care of them under some dole system. This is because with a cut in acreage there is no need for so many workers in the fields. It is believed this may affect 400,000 farmers and a large number of persons who are dependent upon them for livelihood...
Tobacco Road (adapted by Jack Kirkland from Erskine Caldwell's novel; Anthony Brown, producer). Country squalor, never as bad as city squalor, lies over Robert Redington Sharpe's single stage set of a tenant farmer's shack, front yard and well in the Georgia tobacco country. Even the smell of hot dust, of unwashed bedding and dried food leavings seems to drift out over Manhattan audiences. In this unhurried shiftless atmosphere the events of Tobacco Road stretch themselves with lazy brutality. Compressing in time rather than exaggerating in degree the sordid materialism of lazy back-countrymen...
Blithely unconcerned with all this and with desolate acres of unrented floor space over their heads, hordes of engineers and artisans have been busy preparing a section of the first eleven floors of the 70-story RCA Building for a bargain-driving tenant. National Broadcasting Co. With everything in readiness despite a last-minute flurry of confusion, one rainy night last week NBC dedicated its new quarters with a gala program. Bland words were spoken by NBC's President Merlin Hall ("Deac") Aylesworth, RCA's Board Chairman James Guthrie Harbord, GE's Board Chairman Owen D. Young...