Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Owners of small structures (four dwelling units or less) whose net operating income from rents is less than 25% of their total yearly take will be allowed to boost their return to 30%. Example: A landlord takes in $1,000 a year in rents, spends $800 of it for labor, taxes, fuel, depreciation, etc. His profit is $200, so the Government will let him boost his rent enough to raise his profit from 20 to 30%. He will be allowed to raise his gross rents to $1,143, for a profit of $343. Owners of larger structures will be allowed...
Perfectly Innocent Thing? That the activities of the Communists since 1945 were not perfectly innocent was what the Government had been trying to prove for the past 16 weeks. They had called a total of eleven witnesses-ex-Communists and undercover agents for the FBI-most of them once trusted and responsible members of the U.S. Communist Party. Their testimony touched on Red activities in Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Maryland, Wisconsin, New York, Missouri and Ohio...
Pulitzer Prizewinning Playwright Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman) spoke up for the simple life, in Cue magazine: "I can only work as an anonymous person among anonymous people . . . The kind of life one leads when one has the means for total leisure is a very destructive life. Leisure is a thing that normally takes place once a week in most people's lives, on Sunday . . . For the writer to forget the problems of work and leisure is to forget the basic patterns of people's lives...
...important business is transacted. Yet for 48 years, the important business of the annual stockholders' meeting has been transacted across the Hudson River in Hoboken, N.J., in a small bank building.* Last week at Big Steel's annual meeting, only 350 stockholders (out of a total of 228,000) bothered to come. But not even all of them could find a place to sit; for three sweltering hours 50 of them had to stand in a cramped, stuffy room...
...torment he gives the body during the day, the schoolteacher causes one death and one near-ruin among the young couple. Strangely enough, he does not fall down an elevator shaft in the end or meet with any other fit (and customary) punishment, but the last scene indicates a total breakdown is near...