Word: locally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficult to understand the opposition. Considering the gravity of the present housing crisis (estimates of the need run as high as 1.5 million units per year until 1960), it was a mild proposal which had almost complete support throughout the country. It called for Federal subsidies to local or state governments for 500,000 units of public housing per year for the next four years. Only those with incomes less than $2100 a year would be eligible, a group which speculative builders cannot pretend to cater to, for rents would not have exceeded $32 per month...
...Bill also strengthened the National Housing Agency. It would have appropriated $25 million for local research studies, strengthened existing aids to privately financed housing and provided Federal loans to localities for slum clearance and redevelopment. There were other titles for rural and farm housing and a provision for a yearly survey by the NHA and local officials to check needs and the progress of the program. The maximum appropriation per year would have been $133 million...
Freddie's employers reckoned without the Auckland Local of the New Zealand Electrical Workers union, a potent organization in a country where about half of the wage earners are union members. From George Allbright, secretary of the local, went a letter to the Korma Mills factory where Freddie did a job lately. "The union's complaints," said Allbright, "are on the following grounds...
Podiatrists may now give local (but not general) anesthetics, prescribe sedatives like barbiturates (not narcotics), perform minor surgery. They treat not only corns, bunions and calluses, but also foot symptoms of gout, arthritis and circulation disturbances. One of their most important jobs is teaching diabetics proper foot care, to reduce the chances of gangrene. Podiatrists practice in 40 hospitals in New York State, in about...
...Gong and Grabelsky" yesterday borrowed a large balloon from a local concorn, attached a campaign message, and let it float 400 feet above Widener a little after noon. Today it will fly above Claus Gelotte's camera shop on Massachusetts...