Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pointing out that basic room rents now are substantially at the 1940-41 level, Durant claimed that the rent rise is necessary to meet 30 percent grater costs resulting from the "period of inflation...
Disagreeing sharply with the belief in the necessity of immediate world government expressed by Cord Meyer, Jr. 1G, Herman Finer, visiting lecturer on Government, declared that such an organization could solve none of the basic issues causing war, at a forum on "UNO and World Government" held at Wellesley College Saturday afternoon...
...making daily progress toward the settlement . . . of deep-seated and bitter conflicts which have lasted for 20 years . . . . They are succeeding in . . . ending hostilities . . . and are now engaged in the business of demobilizing vast military forces and integrating the remainder into a national army. They have agreed to the basic principles for the achievement in China of political and economic advances which were centuries coming to Western democracies...
...stand against the toughest enemy of all-the cotton bloc. OPA fears that the soaring price of raw cotton will wreck its low-cost clothing program. But Bowles was badly mauled by cotton patriots two months ago when he tried to put a ceiling on cotton, the only basic commodity without one. This time he tried a flank attack...
Those who remembered Designer Buckminster Fuller's "Dymaxion-Dwelling Machine" of 19 years ago could see basic similarities in his latest product. A 36-foot round aluminum shell was suspended on a central stainless steel mast, firmly anchored and capped by a rudderlike ventilator, which turns with the wind. Inside, the house was unexpectedly spacious: two bedrooms,, two baths, a large living room with fireplace, kitchen and some built-in furniture. A heating and air-conditioning unit, operated by either gas or electricity, was neatly stowed away in the innards, along with most of the plumbing. (Bucky Fuller...