Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation felt the pinch of the greatest housing shortage in the nation's history. In Kansas City, the Veterans' Housing Center had 700 applications, could fill only 30. In Portland, Ore., a veteran turned city fireman lived with his wife and child in one room, shared a bathroom with seven other families. In Birmingham, veterans and their families lived in tourist camps, heated baby bottles on automobile radiators...
...Bathroom Scene. Ostensible excuse for PerÓn's new wave of terror was an abortive coup instigated in CÓrdoba by brave but bumbling ex-President General Arturo Rawson. But the resounding demonstration staged in the streets of Buenos Aires last fortnight by 500,000 irate Argentines, some of them bearing a placard of famed Patriot Rogue Saenz Pefia was the tip-off to PerÓn that he had better get tough...
...rdoba police ignored a writ of habeas corpus, shipped a college president off for Buenos Aires by train. Furious, the judge who had granted the writ overtook the train in a car, had the prisoner freed. In Buenos Aires, a Radical Party leader locked the arresting officer in a bathroom...
...bathroom is in bad shape, too - the window's blown out and most of the tiles are broken, but it's usable. If we get gas, which we hope to get sometime this winter, there will be hot water...
...Stettinius had redecorated the high-ceilinged walls and put two telephones in the Secretary's private bathroom. Jimmy Byrnes left the old, grey pile of masonry on Pennsylvania Avenue alone, but he changed the topside of the staff. It is now extraordinarily varied...