Word: boon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most U.S. railroads, the Reed-Bulwinkle Bill was a long-sought boon. It would exempt them from the antitrust laws. The railroads could agree among themselves on rates, as long as they were approved by the ICC. But to a handful of Senators, the bill was a camel's nose beneath the tent of antitrust legislation. They feared the whole camel would soon be inside...
...Wagner-Ellender-Taft bill, favorably reported from committee but blocked by the inertia or hostility of Senate leaders, lies the single greatest boon to house building. It is not a public housing bill. It would act only as a stimulus to private enterprise. With a yearly cost of only $143,000,000, it could produce in ten years 15,000,000 dwelling units, of which only 500,000 would be public housing. The W-E-T bill would help provide homes that rent from $30 to $50 a month, a fact which causes landlords and realtors who are enjoying inflated...
Next fall most of the Freshmen will come directly from prep or high schools. Future classes will be more and more molded in the patter of the pre-war Harvard. This is a mixed blessing, for the veteran student has been a boon to Harvard. He has brought it maturity, seriousness of purpose, and greater diversity. As it begins to "return to normaley" the College should strive to retain for future classes those elements which have reduced the crowding and the chow lines of the past year to the vel of of petty grievances...
...fire had broken out while the fire department of a new community existed only as a paper project. The measures advocated by the President were the means most urgently needed. If the dollar can be used ... to improve the lot of the citizens of Greece and Turkey then the boon will be a domestic blessing...
...days of Charles Dickens and his disciple George Gissing have tried to do for London what numerous U.S. writers have done for New York. As a result, Dulcimer Street is likely to be an eye opener for U.S. readers. Apart from the crime he commits, Author Collins' Percy Boon is a typical young Londoner of 1939-as dedicated to intricate machinery and peroxide beauty as Americans are supposed to be. Percy's natural habitats are not the fast-disappearing pubs and winding streets of old London, but new London's numerous glittering picture palaces, dance halls, road...