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With Schedule I in hand, a tenant began by classifying his apartment. A three-room fifth-floor apartment in a fairly decent neighborhood would be rated as 3-a. With louder street noises, darker corridors and no stair carpeting, it dropped into 3-b. He then classified his rooms: "habitable" (nine square meters or more), "secondary" (at least seven square meters), and "annexes" (baths, toilets, closets). By multiplying this space by coefficients ranging from .6 to 1.0, depending on the classification of his rooms, he arrived at his total area of "useful floor space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Coefficients for the Millions | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...excited belling of presidential candidates drew nearer & louder last week, assorted listeners rose in public to state their choice and take their stand

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Pot Boils, Oct. 4, 1948 | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...rusty gramophone was grinding out popular waltz tunes. Soon the pilgrims began betting on whether Maria would die. They bet money, their wine crops, their horses, mules and even pieces of land. As Maria's hour of agony drew near the wine flowed faster, the music beat louder, the bets went higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: They Did Cast Lots | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

Spike Jones, whose band plays louder than almost anybody else's, took his new bride to Hawaii for twelve days. Spike's goal: "A little peace and quiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Ruffles & Flourishes | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...upstart wanted to make pictures himself. His actor friend, Graves, had a terrific idea for a script-about a Bowery bruiser who adopts a baby. Hughes was impressed, laid out $50,000. This picture, Swell Hogan, was such an arrant turkey that it was never released. The wiseacres laughed louder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Mechanical Man | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

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