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...government notes that railway workers, unlike most other laborers in India, enjoy low-rent housing, subsidized medical services, free travel and special schools for their children. Granting their demands, says the government, would cost an inflationary $600 million...
Uncontrolled growth in Hawaii has been accompanied by an apparent unconcern by federal officials in Washington. A Hawaiian living in the low-rent Palolo Valley district said last summer in a community meeting, "If we threaten to secede, Washington's response will be 'so What...
...first incident concerned several white men, all said to be armed, who were reportedly moving into the Parkchester Apartments, a low-rent black housing complex in northern New Orleans. Armed with rifles and shotguns, the police raided the apartments, only to find that their suspects had fled. Police later theorized that the men had been common burglars and holdup men, not would-be assassins. Then at 10:30 p.m. on the eve of the President's visit, a police uniform, badge and nameplate were mysteriously stolen from a parked car. Three and a half hours later, the official...
...also built low-rent public housing in some impoverished areas...
...Thus, as part of a $1,000,000 public works improvement program, Atlantic City's public works commissioner, Arthur W. Ponzio, proposed to change the names of the avenues to Fairmont and Melrose to improve the city's traffic patterns and to get away from the old low-rent image...