Word: low
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Construction of 1,000,000 low-rent housing units...
...listening to 50 witnesses, the Senate Labor Committee got down to the business of writing a new labor law to replace Taft-Hartley. The Banking Committee, with the support of 22 Senators from both sides of the aisle, brought out a housing bill which would provide 810,000 low-rent housing units by 1955, just about halfway between Harry Truman's request and Republican counterproposals...
...Chance. During the breathing spell between strike vote and walkout, U.S. educated Socialist Narain talked with the government. By Feb. 16, he told his railroad men that the government had granted a $3 monthly pay raise to low-paid employees and would consider other demands. The union leaders voted to postpone the strike. But some rank-&-filers wanted their full contract rights. The Communists grabbed their chance...
...press coop, Western Union operators bent low to hear the chatter of their instruments above the din. In St. Louis' jammed Kiel Auditorium last week, one of the noisiest collections of bells-cowbells, sleighbells, dinner bells-ever assembled under one roof was ringing the rafters. St. Louis rooters were doing their tintinnabulary best to help St. Louis University's basketball team (ranked No. 2 in the nation) to get revenge against arch-rival Oklahoma A. & M. (ranked...
...builders were far from downhearted. There was still a tremendous demand from low-income families ($1,800 to $5,000 a year) for cheap houses. Builders hoped to put up 350,000 to 450,000 "economy homes" in 1949, priced from $4,300 to $8,500. Material costs were falling and, better yet, labor productivity was rising...