Word: renters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American Express, which likes to call itself a home away from home for Americans, last week decided to supply the home with a car. It teamed up with Hertz Corp., the world's biggest car renter, to form a new company that will rent cars around the globe. The new firm, called Hertz American Express International Ltd., will set up a system whereby a traveler can drive a Hertz car to any U.S. airport, hop a plane, and have another Hertz auto meet him at the terminal abroad. The company will first blanket Europe with rental agencies, then push...
Such information as the age and general condition of rooms and furnishings, amount of closet space, extent of kitchen and guest privileges, and the type of heating will also be collected, Currently, the Registry lists only general information, often provided by telephone, and lets each prospective renter find out the details...
...beast which figures prominently in McCurdy's course on contracts, became very real horse flesh behind Austin Hall during the 11 a.m. class break when two first-year students, Fred L. Atwood and Henfry B. Shepard, Jr., presented McCurdy with a hungry nag rented for the occasion. But the renter for the occasion. But the renter left his map of Cambridge in his other pants, and the rentees very nearly had a horse as mythical as McCurdy's. Two hundred waiting law students can't be wrong, however, and driver found, Harvard and Dobin met McCurdy's other friend...
Wenner-Gren's associates prudently hired an obeah (Bahamian voodoo) ghost (?10 from a local ghost renter) to assure success at the opening. As any obeah-minded Bahamian could have predicted, this precaution worked; the ghost, one Richard Crotch in life, worked silently and invisibly to bring the necessary luck. Such corporeal visitors as Prince and Princess Alexis Obolensky, Mrs. Winston Guest, Sir Victor Sassoon, Mrs. Bernard Gimbel and Metropolitan Opera Tenor Jussi Bjoerling materialized from amphibians that made 40 nights in and out. Other guests, before and since: Danny Kaye, the Countess of Leicester, Brenda Frazier Kelly...
...firm told a prospective renter he could move in for 14 months on a 12-month lease. He was asked to sign the lease now and start paying rent two months after beginning occupancy of the suite...