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Word: lowe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second bill, privately sponsored, recognizes the increased need which has developed since the T-E-W Bill was first introduced more than a year and a half ago and contains a broader program. It includes the 500,000 units for low income groups of the old bill, but increases the total program to provide 300,000 units for the $2100-$3600 bracket. It also extends the planning and research title to coordinate urban decentralization for defense and use of vacant land rather than slum clearance when the shortage is so severe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Place to Live | 12/14/1948 | See Source »

...buildings, said Mumford, were too high. Children could not use the elevators alone; mothers could not keep an eye on them from their kitchen windows. The foyers were dark, windowless and waste space. Though subsidized by tax exemption, the apartments were not reserved for low-income families. The "completely asphalted" playgrounds were inadequate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: New Nightmares for Old? | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...Adams lay very still beneath the patchwork coverlet. Over his bed, his tall silk stovepipe hat hung on a peg in the wall. Through the dusty windows, his daughter Ella could catch glimpses of the worn-out Texas land. She wrote laboriously: "Sir. This to say Popa offi low. Now he done stop eating ennything, wont nothing and no one. I am riting let you no he no good. He might be living when you get hear and then he might not." A few hours later, when the coons and possums and mean grey foxes began to move through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Funeralizing Uncle Row | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Ships. The Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. was the low bidder on U.S. Lines' projected new 48,000-ton superliner (TIME, Aug. 2), proposing to build the ship for $67,350,000. The contract must still be approved by the U.S. Maritime Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Dec. 13, 1948 | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...most part, and has to waste a lot of time unraveling the plot (which, although flimsy, is rather intricate). But she is a good straight man, and does a creditable job of sustaining "June Bride" in its dull spots. Although there are a number of these low pressure areas in the film, they aren't very damaging. The Montgomery-Davis combination far out-balances them...

Author: By David E. Lillenthal jr., | Title: June Bride | 12/10/1948 | See Source »

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