Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clearly to wipe out the highest brackets in the scale of rents and bring more rooms within the $240-$260 class. Part of the reduction in income which this entails will automatically be made up by renting, even though at lower prices, rooms which on the present scale remain vacant. The balance may be recouped, as the Council suggests, through a uniform tax of a few dollars on each of the rooms. As a half measure, this suggestion is an excellent one, and little need be added except a warning that such a readjustment should not be carried...
...some 1,100,000 children registered and entered school. For them the Board of Education has approved a budget of 130-odd million dollars, $2,000,000 higher than last year despite Mayor John Patrick O'Brien's requests to prune. The Board plans to fill two vacant superintendencies despite his orders not to. ¶ In North Carolina rural youngsters learned they might have to go to school six days a week, the Legislature having raised the State-supported school term (by which every school board gets a minimum grant) from six months to eight. To enable farm...
Amid storms of laughter signs were hung on the Palace door reading "Vacant" and "For Rent." Thousands of mobsters, unable to crowd indoors, tore up palm fronds in the Palace gardens, marched off waving them in triumph. Some stopped at the U. S. Embassy to cheer Ambassador Welles who promised "continued mediation " declared that "Cubans are solving their own problems," begged for "control and calm...
...that the present size of the Freshman class, so large that over 100 men could not find accommodations in Houses was a mistake. The Class of 1937 is expected to be slightly over 1000 so that next year five per cent of the rooms in the Houses which were vacant this year will be occupied...
...Bronx, N. Y., Helen Vatale Cerrulo quarreled with her 21-year-old husband Mike, went home to her mother. Few hours later, armed with baseball bats and pick handles, a dozen Cerrulos & friends met a dozen Vatales & friends on a vacant lot. When riot squads cleared the battlefield one Vatale henchman lay still with a fractured skull, another lay dead...