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...plan was basically concerned with permanent conventional building to assure first veterans, then non-veteran hardship cases, of real homes. Of the 1,200,000 houses planned for 1946, at least 700,000 would be permanent. No temporary dwellings of any kind were included in the 1,500,000 which he planned to build...
Facts & Fancies. The inaudible facts were simple. It was true that the Jews were fleeing Poland-fleeing the memories of past terror and the reality of present hardship. It seemed true that Zionist "underground railroads" were helping them. It was not true that most of the refugees were well-fed or rosy-cheeked...
...haggisless St. Andrew's Day had faced Scots in Canada once before-in 1943. Then, they had flooded Ottawa with skirls of protest. This time the forewarned Board ruled: ". . . it was felt that an exception could be made for haggis, because as many Scotsmen contend it is a hardship to eat it as maintain it is a hardship to go without...
...TWICE AS WELL THIS TIME AGAINST INFLATIONARY PRESSURES MANY TIMES GREATER. BIG CHALLENGE TO AMERICA NOW IS FOR BUSINESS AND CONSUMERS AND GOVERNMENT TO HOLD THE LINE THROUGH TRANSITION PERIOD TO SUSTAINED PROSPERITY. AFTER END OF WORLD WAR ONE COST OF LIVING INDEX ROSE ANOTHER 40%, CAUSED MISERY AND HARDSHIP. WE ARE DETERMINED THAT SHALL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN...
With only six commercial television stations yet in operation-three in New York City, one each in Schenectady, Philadelphia and Chicago-the $400 to $500 cost of television receivers has worked no real hardship on the privileged U.S. public. But lest it should, Manhattan's Viewtone Co. last week said that it was ready with a set for "the average man." Viewtone, which is now making electronic devices for military use, backed its claim by displaying a small table model, with a small (4½ x 6½ in.) screen. Price: $100. Viewtone promised to go into production...