Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...observation is the discovery of the high cost of rent necessary to maintain the new houses in the Administration's "slum clearance" program. As much as $7 per month per room with the government carrying almost half of the construction cost is required to give the city-dweller minimum comfort according to the American standard of living...
...established reason for cocoa's hot market was the great increase in world consumption coupled with a shortage of production in West Africa. The precise extent of the shortage remained a matter of conjecture (TIME, Jan. 18). Traders to whom cocoa's market seemed too warm for comfort pondered the following circumstances: 1) tipsters and outside speculators were playing a larger part than usual in cocoa trading; 2) for weeks, every time the price of cocoa advanced a single point (.01? ), immediate selling orders for five or ten lots (one lot: 30,000 Ib.) had appeared from...
...comfort can be gained from Section 2A of the law, which Dr. Beatley would have one believe removes most valid objections. This section is a pious statement that the law is not intended to interfere with freedom of speech and thought as guaranteed by the Constitution. In fact, this very tergiseveration admits that the law aims to do just that. A dagger dipped in honey is no less deadly...
...inaugurated non-stop service between New York and Chicago with DC-3s outfitted along a new design which makes them the most luxurious in the world. Instead of 21 seats arranged in rigid rows, United installed 14 big swivel chairs, much like those in a Pullman, giving passengers more comfort and room to use such gewgaws as bridge tables, footstools, chessmen magnetized so they will not tumble in rough air. United's sacrifice of seven seats, though partially offset economically by increased cargo capacity, still leaves a 30% reduction in normal DC-3 payload. Therefore United made...
...possibly be deemed necessary along these lines. There he stressed the practical approach to architecture; this emphasis, and also his theory that architecture should be studied as a social science, and not merely an aesthetic art, indicate that Mr. Gropius thoroughly understands the modern spirit, which demands utility and comfort in its buildings as well as beauty. He was among the first to realize the growing importance of the part industry was to play...