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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than eleven hundred student veterans of World War II together with their wives and children have secured living quarters through the aid of the University's Housing Bureau since its founding early this year, Donald D. Hathaway, manager of the Bureau said today...
This still leaves an immense backlog, however, for since January 7, 1,718 applicants have filled out formal requests for room space and another 627 have filed applications for future housing for the coming summer and fall terms. This staggering total means that despite its impressive record the Housing Bureau still has more veterans waiting than it has settled in the last five months. New applications are pouring in daily, Hathaway declared...
...Bureau started out with only two vacancies, Hathaway said, but since that time it has rooted out 484 different listings. Not all of these have been of very high quality but only nine were declared to be unsuitable for occupancy. Twenty-two of the vacancies, however, were already rented by the time the students arrived, while six other landlords changed their minds after previous offers...
...only dedicated to finding apartments, the Housing Bureau also acts as a mother confessor for troubled student veterans by advising them drawing up leases, rental ceilings, occupancy rights, and often hands out tips on where to buy furniture once they have moved...
...fruit of his and of the rest of the Paris bureau's labors arrived in Manhattan on schedule for writing and editing. Everything about the report was crystal clear except an explanation of the switchboard in Thorez' regal office. The switchboard was an impressive affair studded with 48 buttons and twinkling red and green lights. LaGuerre, who couldn't take his eyes off of it, asked the leader what it signified. Thorez swore that he never had been able to figure the blamed thing...