Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found a method of giving Congress its full responsibility, without seeming to abdicate in its favor. This week he learned that, according to a Gallup poll, 48% of the people now think he is doing a good job-a rise of 16 points since last October. This did not alter the fact that most political observers still think the voters will want a change...
Logs are rolling again in Washington as industrial and agricultural groups, together with their Congressional alter egos swathed in the philosophy of Hawley-Smoot, take pot shots at the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act in general and prospective import duty rate reductions in particular. The Committee for Reciprocal Information has been informed that "lowered import duties constitute a threat to American industry, agriculture, and defense," and Senator Butler, Republican of Nebraska, has revealed that the reciprocal pacts have been "a gigantic hoax on the American people . . . solely for the benefit of other nations." But the faithful of the high tariff flock...
Neutra has done as much as any modern architect to prove that glass, steel and concrete are practical, if not cosy. His wide, white houses perch perkily on the hills around Los Angeles where he lives, and they alter more distant landscapes too. He is versatile enough to have designed both a moated desert mansion for Movie Director Josef von Sternberg and an elaborate system of low-cost schools and hospitals for Puerto Rico. Neutra's buildings are pondered and imitated (especially in technical details of construction) by architects around the world. Says noted French Architect Marcel Lods...
...land. Private individuals may continue to own property and use it for profit (unless and until the national or local Government chooses to take it from them, at a price set by the Government). But from the day when Silkin's bill takes effect, private owners may not alter its present use or sell it for any other use without Government permission. If permission is granted and property value is thereby increased, the Government (not the owner) gets the profit "in whole or in part...
...owner is not entitled to compensation by the Government. Any compensation he may get comes to him not as a vested right but as a favor from an indulgent government. Only if the Government takes land for planned use or compels a property owner to demolish buildings or otherwise alter the use of his property in ways which lessen its current value is compensation granted as a matter of right-and then 'only in amounts determined by the Government...