Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After compiling 4,559 pages of testimony for guidance, the Federal Communications Commission last week got ready to shift many a tenant of the U.S. airwaves. So doing, FCC laid some bets on the Buck Rogerishness of the postwar world...
Sartorially Yours. In St. Petersburg, Fla., Charles Granderson lost his entire wardrobe to a burglar, moved to new quarters vacated by a tenant convicted of watch-snatching, found his own clothes hanging in the closet...
Eight Rush County farmers, seven of them tenants on Willkie land and one a former tenant, carried Wendell Willkie's flag-draped coffin to the hearse. As the funeral procession moved over the road to East Hill Cemetery, hundreds stood bareheaded. The hearse rolled through a grey stone arch, up a hill to the grave...
...confiscated land was to be divided into farms of not more than twelve and a half acres. These would be allotted to peasants who had little or no land, and to former tenant farmers. Priority would be given to veterans of Lublin's fighting forces, all those who fought for a "democratic Poland." Former big landowners might also receive twelve and a half acres of land-but not from their own lands. Or they might receive a small monthly allowance "amounting to the salary of a state official of the sixth group...
Considerable private trade goes on, especially risky, lucrative smuggling. Most legitimate marketing is handled by consumer-producer cooperatives. In parts of the Border Region, the old landlord-tenant system is preserved with modifications. Rent and interest have been cut an average 25%. Landlords may not evict tenants.Tenants must pay their rent on time except in cases of crop failure when both sides share the loss...