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Carpenters, electricians, masons et al. are forever getting into rows over who should do what work. Last week U. S. Housing Administrator Nathan Straus, who hopes to assist State and local agencies in building thousands of low-rent homes, announced that U. S. H. A. has arranged with A. F. of L.'s construction unions to settle all such arguments in advance. In return for a guarantee that wages prevailing when a project is started shall be paid until the job is done, the unions agreed to postpone any jurisdictional strikes until the Housing Authority...
TIME would be loath to cause a Kentuckian to reach for his hip pocket, unless he were merely toting a pint of Kentucky's famed bourbon. Nevertheless, modernistic though its clubhouse may be, the industrial and low-rent residential neighborhood surrounding Louisville's Churchill Downs makes that celebrated race course seem shabby indeed...
...around the corner-" President Roosevelt paused significantly. The crowd roared, catching his imitation of his predecessor about to speak of prosperity. "Now we know how to get around the corner," added Stumpster Roosevelt owlishly. "-There stands a tribute to useful work under Government supervision, the first slum clearance and low-rent housing project. Here, at the request of the citizens of Atlanta, we have cleaned out nine square blocks of antiquated, squalid dwellings, for years a detriment to this community. Today those hopeless old houses are gone and in their place we see the bright, cheerful buildings of the Techwood...
...allotted $5,411,900 for 61 projects in 22 States and Hawaii. The day after, he fortified his reply to Labor by another $10,095,068 allocation. Most of it went in the form of 30% grants, 70% loans at 4% interest. San Francisco was to have a low-rent housing development; Princeton, N. J. an incinerator; Fort Steilacoom, Wash, a hospital; Buffalo, N. Y. a storm drain. Other projects included airport developments, schools, bakeries, libraries, waterworks, power plants...
Even Academicians who grow apoplectic over the "gaspipe & cement block" appearance of buildings in the International Style are grateful for the work its founders have done in low-rent housing...