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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When will the housing shortage break? Last week, from the Denver convention of the National Association of Housing Officials, came an authoritative guess: "Barring strikes this winter, the earliest we can expect a break is the middle or late part of 1947.. . .No early solution is in sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Get a Trailer | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

Faculty members and graduate and undergraduate students not residing in College buildings, who were contacted by mail, did not receive their letters until yesterday at the earliest, and results of the mailing-list solicitations will not be known for some time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Solicitations Net $3,862 From Houses and Law School in Initial Days of Food Drive | 8/16/1946 | See Source »

...Changes made will be no more than those absolutely necessary for two reasons," Edward Francis, real estate consultant of the Straus Hall office, said yesterday. "First, by this method, we can make the units available at the earliest possible date. In the second place, our contract with the government calls for the return of the area in its present state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fort Devens Project Being Readied for Use Next Fall | 7/23/1946 | See Source »

...There is no historical record of how & when Cleaveland became Cleveland. The legend: one of the town's earliest editors dropped the A because it made his journal's masthead too long; no one complained, so it was never used again. *Among other good catches: a Glenn L. Martin plastics plant; a Butler Brothers metallurgical plant; a Fruehauf Trailer Co. assembly factory. *Greater Cleveland (pop. 1,250,000) is Cuyahoga County. Cleveland has 13 suburbs ranked as cities (the largest is Lakewood with 65,900 population) and 41 suburbs ranked as villages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES .& STATES: Cleveland's Planners | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...first Rhodes scholars were named in 1903. There have been 2,215 since-about half from the U.S.*Last week one of the earliest scholars, Frank Aydelotte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The First 1,100 | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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