Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...houses which won $1,000 apiece in the biggest low-cost house competition yet held. Each was planned to be within the reach of a family man earning $2,100 a year, yet each had two acres of ground and plenty of character. Explanation : sponsors were four fervent back-to-the-land organizations whose lucid publicist is Author George Weller of Homeland Foundation. For reducing cost factors which the ARCHITECTURAL FORUM found irreducible by the individual, they postulated cooperative buying of land by "homestead associations" of several families...
Last week fate struck back at the two-ton wife-killer. Children were tossing peanuts across the moat to Bill. Reaching for a weakly-tossed one, Bill greedily leaned forward, teetered, landed pomph on the concrete floor of the moat...
...Guild was a memorandum from Managing Editor Edwin L. James to Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, found on the desk of Times Auditor Harry Weinstock. The memorandum referred to a Communist leaflet circulated through the Times. It said: "The spies report that some of the auditing people are back of this. Maybe it will amuse Mr. Weinstock to try to find...
...Time For Comedy (by S. N. Behrman; produced by Katharine Cornell and the Playwrights Co.) brought Katharine Cornell triumphantly back to Broadway after a two years' absence-in the first full comedy role of her career...
Champion jinx in French shipping, which has had more than its share of bad luck and inept seamanship, has roosted on the red-and-black funnels of the 34,569-ton luxury liner Paris. Since her launching in 1921, she has run aground in New York harbor, broken her back on Eddystone Rocks off the English coast, rammed a Norwegian freighter, twice been damaged by mysterious fires...