Word: disrepair
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Colonel Westbrook believes that his plan combines the advantages of both ownership and rental. Moreover, it will give residents substantial savings in maintenance costs (through centralized staff and purchases), will protect them against neighborhood deterioration by insuring that no building will fall into disrepair or be replaced by a hot-dog stand. Still more hopeful is the fact that the Camden Plan is not subsidy housing. Although a small subsidy was provided at Audubon Village to make up for construction delays caused by bad weather and a strike, the plan's basic principle is for projects...
...wild. Always superior because of controlled quality, it pushed wild rubber from expanding markets till, in the peak year of 1934, out of a world production of 1,019,000 tons Brazil contributed but 9,000 tons, a catastrophic 0.89%. In Iquitos, Peru, upriver from Manaus, docks fell into disrepair. Manaus grew clean and hungry. The State of Amazonas defaulted both internal and external debt regularly each year...
...Many schools were in such disrepair (the New York Post reported) that roofs leaked, plaster fell from ceilings on pupils' heads, and pupils caught cold from drafts...
...three presidents in 14 months. San Antonio teachers, whose pay was cut 38% in 1932, chafe under a six-hour-a-day grind in classes, monthly salaries of $75 to $160. One board president ordered teachers not to attend public dances or drink alcohol. School buildings are in disrepair. San Antonio high schools are in danger of being dropped from affiliation with the State Committee on Classified and Accredited Schools because of overcrowding. Last fall San Antonio's teachers threatened to strike, were dissuaded by stern warnings that teachers' unions were not wanted in Texas...
...people in Harvard know that the music department possesses a fine Dolmetsch Harpsichord. Of these people, a very few know that it now lies in a miserable state of disrepair, dried out by years of steam heat, so that the ivory inlay has half fallen out of its rosewood case. A very few know that quill tongues are broken and bolstered with felt, that its leather is rotten, that its legs are tied up with string, that its pedals are falling to pieces...