Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...original federal rent controls were a wartime measure, but they were drawn up to meet a serious problem that was rooted well back before the war: the fact that American builders cannot afford to put up housing for people who need it. Even in the depression year of 1933, with an estimated 5,000,000 vacant dwelling units, there was a 20 to 30 percent shortage of housing facilities for lower income groups. The causes for this condition continue, most important being the high cost of building materials and capital, ancient and discriminatory building codes, and restrictive measures by unions...
Neither is strong enough for the job. Until builders, or alternatively the Federal government, can come through with housing to shelter people who cannot afford to pay increasd rents--an estimated 600,000 people in New York City alone--strict controls are necessary to keep overwhelming demand from pushing rents high out of reach. The original Federal controls are just good enough for the job; the comparative present stability of rents shows this. If Congress weakens these controls, it will benefit nobody but the men who have so far terribly failed to cure the housing shortage on their...
...these ten years I have come to realize as never before how much praise man is just simply bound to give to God his Maker. This I hold a gain for the sake of which I willingly put in second place the wistful desire to be younger, though I cannot suppress that desire...
...costs money. Last week, he reported a $30,000 deficit to his trustees. It didn't seem to bother him. "That's as it should be," he beamed. "A school of this sort should have deficit activities. Artist-teachers demand, rightfully, artists' fees, which most students cannot afford. What's the solution? Endowment. We want five million dollars...
...primarily through their children, because only through the family can people grasp another important element of culture-"Piety towards the dead, however obscure, and a solicitude for the unborn, however remote." So, in Eliot's opinion, if an "elite" does not become a rooted upper class, it cannot have any real cultural value; to enemies of aristocracy Eliot says that though in a class system many aristocrats fail to live up to their ancestors' high calling, a precious handful may be relied upon to fulfill the obligations of their class...