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...learned to fly before he learned to drive a car, was an air cadet in World War I, put the famed P47 Thunderbolt into mass production in World War II. Air travelers are in debted to Damon for helping develop 1) the first all-sleeper transport plane, and 2) low-cost tourist travel on both domestic and international lines...
...gallon (though heavy taxes lift it up to 29? a gallon). Ancient, reeking Baghdad (pop. 550,000), which bears almost no resemblance to the flower-decked Arabian Nights pleasure dome that the Caliph Harun al-Rashid (786-809) shared so opulently with 2,000,000 subjects, is getting low-cost housing, a sewage system, some badly needed modern streets, and the promise of room to expand now that the Tigris can be curbed...
Second Look. Not until 1937, when the Federal Government built 1.200 miles of low-cost rural lines, did most of sparsely settled Stevens County (pop. 19,500) get any electricity at all. The privately owned Washington Water Power Co., which served a few Stevens County towns, had been unable during the Depression to finance the job. To get even cheaper rates, once the tax-paid lines were built. Stevens County formed a Public Utilities District -one of 23 county government electrification systems in the State of Washington's 39 counties...
HOUSING FOR AGED will be pushed by the Housing and Home Finance Agency, which plans to ask Congress for permission to guarantee up to 90% of 40-year, 4¼% loans by private banks for low-cost apartments, sponsored by unions and fraternal groups, for those over...
Seven years later he had seven branches in eastern Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, and his business was flourishing. Kress freely borrowed Woolworth's ideas, shrewdly located his first store in Memphis, where there was a ready market for low-cost merchandise-and no competition...