Word: rented
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...average worker in Germany works ten hours a day for six days a week. He makes 130 marks a month ($52), spends half of it for taxes, rent, lottery chances and the automobile he has been promised some day. He drinks beer, sometimes made out of barley or sugar beets. He worships Hitler. But last week from some where in Germany was broadcast a mes sage to the Italian people: "You have the revolutionary arms in your hands...
Tousled old Painter John Sloan, still a lively experimentalist at 69, produced his explanation of why art is dear. Because "people consume our product without buying it," he moaned, "an artist has to pay a good deal of rent to have a nice place to store his unsold paintings...
Recalling that Arnold's first big, nationwide investigation into living costs (housing) resulted in 99 indictments against 1,538 defendants, the Justice Department termed the foodstuffs probe "a logical successor . . . because next to rent food is the largest item of consumer expenditures." Placed in charge by Arnold was the same man who ran the housing investigation - able, publicity-shy young Corwin D. Edwards. As usual, Economist Edwards refused to talk about his job, just got down to work...
...Harvard Stadium. Meanwhile Boston College and Georgetown will be turning away thousands after filling the 35,000 seats in Fenway Park. Why couldn't the Harvard Brown game be shifted to Providence, where it would draw just as many people as it will in Cambridge, and then let Harvard rent the Stadium to B, C for the twenty-five per cent which the Eagles pay to Tom Yawkey? I can't see why Harvard would mind picking up this money and I'm sure that Yawkey wouldn't stand in the way. Boston College Fan. --The Boston Daily Globe...
...Must a bombed-out citizen continue to pay rent?" was the question London tenants' associations busily prepared to agitate before the courts last week while landlords' associations rebutted: "Since the landlord is compelled to continue paying taxes, even on premises rendered useless by bombs, the tenants obviously must continue to pay their rents...